Posted on 08/12/2014 10:55:41 AM PDT by GonzoII
BasNews, Erbil
France Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius again asked for an urgent meeting of European countries Foreign Ministers to discuss immediate arms shipments to the Kurdistan Region for use against Islamic State (IS) militants.
It is necessary to help Kurds and Iraqis and give them help to fight IS insurgents. It needs to be impressed on them that IS insurgents wish to kill all those that dont have the same ideology, thinking and religion as them, said Fabius.
They [IS group] are targeting Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Israel and Palestine, added Fabius.
He also stated that: The battlefield is less than 120 Km from Baghdad and Baghdad has become a city in that battlefield, as well all the roads. Tanks and heavy weapons have been deployed.
Asked about the date of a meeting with the foreign ministers of European countries, Fabius told France Info that: So far the time and date of the meeting has not been determined but I emphasize we need to hold this meeting to be held as soon as possible.
Italian Foreign Minister Federica Mugherini and I have asked European Union Foreign Minister Catherine Ashton to hold the meeting as soon as possible. I hope the date will be soon be determined, added Fabius.
We can sit in our places and say unfortunately we cant do anything, but this is not our reaction. We cant sit and do nothing while we see large number of people getting killed, added Fabius.
On Sunday, Fabius visited Baghdad and Erbil and stated, Due to the imbalance in terms of weaponry between the Kurdish and Iraqi armies and IS militants, it has become easy for IS insurgents to occupy Iraqi territories quickly. With the cooperation of the European Union, we have to think about giving weapons to Kurdish Peshmerga forces.
Preach it!
What in the he11 has happened to France???
Sad that France is leading the way on this.
Gawd! Even the French are ahead of us.
“,,We cant sit and do nothing while we see large number of people getting killed, ..’
Plus, Europe, or the U.S., could be next.
YES!! The Kurds are rocking my world on twitter.
They grew a spine.
Yes. A thousand times yes.
Sad that the French are now the defenders of the West.
Notice the article mentions nothing about the US. Some have said that Obama was slow to the action of supplying the Kurds, that the UK, France and Germany were there first.
The dog barks but the caravan moves on, Obama.
(of course, he wouldn’t understand the meaning of the proverb. as Obama is in his own little world.)
France should put a tax on their hommie muzzies to pay for buying and shipping the arms from France.
What are they waiting for — do it now.
>Sad that the French are now the defenders of the West.<
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Too many Americans have decided that the US should no longer be the ‘policeman of the world’.
France has a culture much older than that of the US. Perhaps it finally realized that as a Christian nation it cannot sit on the sidelines and do nothing when other Christians are being slaughtered.
After all, France did join the Crusades against Islam long before the founding of the US.
I wouldn't go that far.
The ineptitude is astounding. After the first day ISIS entered Mosul, it was quite clear that ISIS has to be disintegrated. They're pure evil.
Then, how far would you go?
Just saying that France is a “Christian” nation is a bit of a stretch these days.
needed and wanted—A new Charles Martel! Send the guns and those armored cars that worked so well in Chad-—the ones that have a big gun to knock out the “Techicals” Toyotas with a 50 caliber Machine Gun. Viva La France—Welcome to the Party!
Reason being that Obama hadn't read about the plight of the Kurds in the newspapers yet................
And frightening.
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