Iran Has COMPLETELY DESTROYED The US Base In Bahrain!

The Jimmy Dore Show

In a segment of The Jimmy Dore Show, guest host Garland Nixon and antiwar.com's Kyle Anzalone discuss Iran's successful attacks on the U.S. Navy base in Bahrain, highlighting the

Key takeaways

• The U.S. naval base in Bahrain was severely damaged by Iranian missile and drone attacks, rendering it inaccessible even for retrieval of personal effects.
• Bahrain's Shia-majority population cheered the strikes, indicating deep resentment toward both the U.S. military presence and the Sunni monarchy it supports.

Main topics

• Iran's military attacks on U.S. naval installations in Bahrain
• U.S. strategic failures in the Middle East

Notable quotes

"The people are in the streets cheering for the missiles that are hitting these American military bases because they see those American military bases as what's enforcing their oppression."

Conclusion

The episode concludes with a strong critique of U.S. foreign policy, arguing that the destruction of the Bahrain base

Transcript preview

Speaker 5 (0:02) Hey, come see me September 18th, 19th in Rosemount, Illinois with Max Blumenthal. Also September 20th with Max Blumenthal in Chicago, Illinois. October 10th, new live celebrity panel show with video in Los Angeles and Ventura Boulevard at the Starlight Cabaret. That's October 10th. And then we'll see you in Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, Toledo, and Cincinnati. That's in November. And I'll be giving a speech September 12th in New York, New York at the Turning the Tide 9-11 event. Go to JimmyDore.com for a link for tickets. Speaker 2 (0:54) Garland Nixon here and hanging out with Kyle Anzalone from antiwar.com. We've got a lot of good stuff coming up. And talking about problems in the Middle East, the United States, it's recently come out and the acting commander of the U.S. Armed Forces has pretty much admitted acting Navy secretary, well, not U.S. Armed Forces, but the acting Navy secretary says Iran, quote, blew the hell. out of the U.S. base in Iran. And here we go. We got actually some videos. Speaker 2 (1:59) You know, one thing before we go into our next, what's interesting about that, Kyle, is that's in Bahrain. And when you watch these videos in Bahrain, and I'm sure you've seen it too, Bahrain is a country that is minority ruled. It is a majority Shia country. And again, it's what we're talking about. And it's mainly, and it's ruled by a Sunni government. And what you'll notice of video after video I've seen from Bahrain, where the missiles, now these are American bases in Bahrain. This is where the fifth fleet. used to be before when there was a base there. But Speaker 7 (2:32) you see the missiles hitting and you hear the people cheering in the street for the missiles that are hitting. And you look at that and you recognize this country is unstable. If the government has the Americans there and the people are cheering when the American bases are struck by missiles, this is not a sustainable military Speaker 2 (2:54) action. Speaker 3 (2:56) Yeah, I mean, one of the things that was never sustainable was having a fifth base in Bahrain as you're waging a war with Iran. It could be hit by short-range missiles or medium-range missiles and drones. It was completely vulnerable. And then, you know, as you point out, the people are in the streets cheering for this. It wasn't that long ago, I think maybe 2011 or 2012, during the Arab Spring, the people rose up against the Bahraini monarchy. And they actually had a call in. Saudi forces, so Saudis plus probably Western mercenaries operating American military equipment, to put down the uprising. They didn't even have the military capability to do it themselves. And so it is just so completely telling that unlike the Iranians who, you know, when Trump says we're going to blow up your bridges, they go to the bridges and defend those bridges. The Bahraini people are cheering the Iranian missiles hitting these American military bases because they see those American military bases as what's enforcing their oppression, that they could have a majority ruled government in that country, that the Shia population could rise up and take over that country if it wasn't for the American military base there, which represents the American military influence in the Middle East and the Bahraini's, a monarchy's ability to call over to the Saudi royal family and say, send your army over. Our people are getting a little restless over here. Speaker 2 (4:25) Absolutely. All right. We got a couple more videos. Look at that. They're cheering. That particular video, in that particular video, what's happening, that's an older video. But what that shows is that the Iranians knew that there were Americans staying in hotels. They knew what particular room high-ranking people were in, and they were able to attack particular rooms and floors. But here's the bottom line. Speaker 2 (5:02) Seeing the people that was cheering, you know what that means? That means Bahrain is crawling with Iranian spies. I mean, effectively Iranian spies. These are people who are Speaker 7 (5:12) probably related, family members, etc. And they're calling across, you know, hey, guess what? There's Americans. They're in room 12. Speaker 2 (5:19) This is, it just shows the absurdity of what we're trying to do. Let us continue. The base has been heavily targeted by Iran after the U.S. and Israel launched airstrikes against the Islamic Republic. The Navy has relied on in at NASA as its oh, that's the The the the name the acronym for the for the base in Bahrain as its main logistics hub chaos said the Navy a cow said the Navy is Weighing what to do with NASA including whether to repair the base. I have a task force. That's looking at that. What's the point? they can Speaker 7 (6:00) blow it to smithereens, you know, you repair it. And if you get in another dust up with Ukraine, Speaker 2 (6:04) I mean, with Iran, it's gone in an hour. In late August, the Navy's top officer said it would be a while before the service branch would return to the base, including to retrieve personal goods for sailors. They can't even go home to get their cell phones. We're not getting back in there anytime soon, Chief of Naval Operations Daryl Carl said during a town hall. I just want to be completely honest with that. Speaker 2 (6:27) The acting U.S. Navy secretary said the Iranian military severely damaged a major Navy installation in Bahrain, acknowledging the extent of the damage. And look at this. USS Abraham Lincoln supply issues stem from Iran's Bahrain naval base attacks. They planned on using that to supply the ships, and the Iranians smoked it. within the first couple days and thwarted all of that and all the other problems that rose from that, the supply issues plaguing the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier stem from Iranian drone and missile attacks on a naval base in Bahrain early in the U.S.-Iran war, the New York Times reported on Friday. So that's what we see, Kyle, an instance where I'm not going to say it's poor planning for this reason. It's poor overall strategy, going to another part of the world, spending billions and billions of dollars to dominate the other part of the world that could have been spent on America. And ultimately, because of long range strike capability in today's military technology, it's all worthless. They can take out of literally their instances where they took out a half a billion dollar radar complexes with 10, 15 thousand dollar drones. Your thoughts. Speaker 3 (7:51) Yeah, I mean, I will say it is just unbelievably stupidity on the strategy level to think that we were going to be able to wage a war against Iran and also have one of our aircraft carriers sit in port for at least several hours, if not several days, and be resupplied in the middle of that conflict. And also. There's an astonishing omission in that Hill article there that they can't get back into the Fifth Fleet base anytime soon just to retrieve the personal effects. Right. Not not that they can't rebuild it anytime soon, but that the Americans can't even step onto that base or they will be hit with uranium missiles and drones. That means that President Donald Trump is. lying to an unbelievable level to the American people when he says the Iranians are defeated, when, again, we can't even just go in and salvage our fifth-leap base in Bahrain. Absolutely astounding. Speaker 2 (8:53) Well, you know, the other thing we see is the absurdity of the amount of money that's been spent thrown away. on the military. Again, that could have been used for America. That could have been given back to Americans in tax money. That could have been used for our roads. That could have been used for our Speaker 7 (9:09) infrastructure, anything it could have been used for. But instead of that, they built all of these things that were highly vulnerable. And at some point, I feel Speaker 2 (9:20) as though There are probably, this is a sad state of affairs to say this, people in the military industrial complex that are rubbing their hands together saying, oh my gosh, look at all of this stuff that's got blown up. We get to go out and make more money and build stuff. Speaker 3 (9:35) Yeah, we could have set the money on fire and would have been better off. At least the Strait of Hormuz would be open and I would be able to fill up my truck for under 125 bucks. You know what I mean? Yeah. The military blowing all this stuff up, wasting all this money trying to intimidate every country around the world has really hurt America's standing. At a time, America really was looked at the shining city on the hill. After World War I, they did studies and polling of Arab populations on what country they wanted to intervene and to help resolve disputes. And they all said the USA. They saw the Americans as... the people who had kicked out the British Empire, not colonists themselves. And so we really could have had good relations with almost every country on the face of this planet. And with our, you know, very, we have a very knowledgeable population, a hardworking population, a lot of capital. I mean, we could have been just unbelievably rich and led the world that way. And instead we wasted it all on this military. And now we can't even win a war against Iran. Speaker 2 (10:46) Yeah, and the other thing is, I believe, and I'll get your comment on this, what's happening now is actually destabilizing, politically destabilizing the United States, certainly economically destabilizing the United States for this reason. A lot of people voted for Donald Trump, and a lot of people kind of crossed their fingers and said, you know, well, he's saying all the right things. And Americans are weary of war. Americans are tired of all of these wars. And a lot of people voted for Donald Trump and Donald Trump said, vote for me and I'll stop the war. And they are getting the opposite of what they voted for. And Americans are furious over that. And I think that's something that's destabilizing the United States along with, as you said, what it costs. I had a diesel pickup truck. I sold it. I went to the gas, I sold it like a month ago. Speaker 7 (11:35) I was going to the gas station. I'm like, I can't fill this thing up. It was an F-250, for God's sake. Now it would probably be $175 or $200 to fill that darn thing up because I had the big gas tank. And Speaker 2 (11:45) I'm like, I can't do this. And I had to sell the truck to somebody, you know, with a horse farm. Sure, they need it. But the bottom line is, I mean, this is not what people voted for. This is not what they demanded. And this is not what they were told they were going to get. Speaker 3 (11:59) Absolutely. And that's why the Republicans are going to get absolutely wiped out in the upcoming midterm elections and why President AOC or Gavin Newsom is now a real possibility in this country. I mean, for all of Donald Trump's faults, he did have a somewhat decent message when he was campaigning in 2024. Now, part of that was. He was campaigning against first Joe Biden and then Kamala Harris, who said Joe Biden didn't do anything wrong. But he was right about prices being too high and us needing to get out of the war in Ukraine and not fighting another needless war in the Middle East. And that really resonated with American people. And now American people see what Donald Trump has done, and they're going to flee back to the Democratic Party, unfortunately, which... You know, I saw today at Dropside News, they have a story that Democrats are upset that Donald Trump was scaling back war games in South Korea and talking about meeting with Kim Jong-un. They want him to be more of a warmonger. The problem is, you know, that the U.S. is in too many wars is that Donald Trump occasionally has a friendly meeting with somebody they don't like. Speaker 2 (13:12) Well, you're absolutely right. That's the problem. I've told many people, you know, I have a radio show in D.C. that's very left leaning. people and there are a lot of independents like myself, but there are still some, God forbid, some Democrats left. And I tell them, if you really, you've got to be out Speaker 7 (13:27) of your mind if you think that the Democrats who work for the same people like Mike Johnson and Speaker 2 (13:32) Hakeem Jeffries are going to give you different policies. I'm sorry, when it comes to foreign policy and many other things, you're going to get rhetoric. Speaker 7 (13:40) One of them may have an American flag and the other one will have a. rainbow flag or something like some cultural issues to try to pretend is there so much different. But Hakeem Jeffries is meeting with Jared Kushner. The bottom line is this, when it comes to the Middle East, when it comes to these policies, in fact, the Ukrainian, I mean, the Democrats will probably go after Trump and say he's not being aggressive enough when it comes to Ukraine. So the Democrats coming in Speaker 2 (14:09) is just going to be, it's I don't know if it's gonna be worse. I don't know if it can be worse, but it sure as heck isn't gonna be any better. Speaker 3 (14:17) Yeah, there may be some advantage to just stymieing what Donald Trump could get due by having an opposition party controlling Congress. As a libertarian, that's typically what I root for in the midterm elections is just anything to keep the U.S. government from doing something because it's always bad for the American people, it seems today. So that might be one advantage. But other than that, I mean, what you're hearing the Democrats talk about is they'll complain about affordability, but they have no real solutions for it and uh you know they're going back to the woke agenda they're saying ah you know one woke 1.0 yeah that was wrong but you know we need woke 2.0 now which is going to seemingly be the same thing just a little bit softer on the rhetorical side i guess uh this this is not good for the united states of america Speaker 2 (15:06) Yeah, as I keep saying, Donald Trump will promise $5,000 per person to people in the United States and won't do it. The Democrats will promise $5,000 per person in Ukraine, and they will do it. That's the only difference between the two. Kyle Anzalone, guess what? I finally got it right. I will never mess it up again. Kyle Anzalone, where can people find you online? Speaker 3 (15:30) Yeah, the best place to find me is my show, The Kyle Anzalone Show. I'm live Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday at 445 Eastern. Every Monday I have on Larry Johnson, regularly interview Scott Horne, a lot of really good foreign policy people. And then I write at antiwar.com, the Libertarian Institute, and judgenap.com. Speaker 2 (15:49) Okay, on the way out, I'm going to get it right. Kyle Anzalone! It took it all that time, but at the very end, I got it right. Kyle Anzalone, thanks a lot for coming back on the Jimmy Dore Show. We always appreciate you coming here. Speaker 5 (16:03) Hey, you know, here's another great way you can help support the show is you become a premium member. 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Speaker 7 (17:08) Yes. Hillary Clinton suggests October 7th was an inside job. Netanyahu wanted to see what they could plan so that he could come down hard and would enhance his position. She's