Posted on 09/03/2014 1:21:47 PM PDT by elhombrelibre
A top Kurdish representative to the U.S. claims that the Obama administration is not doing enough to supply vital advanced weapons to Kurdish peshmerga security forces in their fight against Islamic State militants amid signs that other nations may be eclipsing the U.S. in their level of support.
"To this point, we have only received light arms, nothing effective against ISIS militants, Karwan Zebari, director of U.S. congressional affairs for the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG), told Fox News.
We need effective equipment to go on the offensive. We need to be going after them, he said, adding: There are two heads to this snake that need to be cut off. The one in Iraq is Mosul and the other in Syria is Raqqa.
Currently, the U.S. is providing only ammunition for small arms and mortars and has stopped short of arming the Kurds directly. When asked Wednesday if the White House was planning any changes to its policy, a Defense official told Fox News, The Department of Defense has not provided direct arms to the Kurds and has no plans to do so in the future."
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While Biden threatens ISIS, he and Obama don’t even meet Kurdish minimal needs.
while Obama fiddles
has no plans to do so in the future.
If you have no strategy how could you have plans?
This is pathetic.
It’s not Bush’s fault any more!!!
I hope they aren’t counting on Obama.
Give the Kurds anything they want.
I guess we shouldn’t be too surprised. He’s cavalier about ISIS threat to the US. He wants to claim he ended terrorism and the war in Iraq. Reality doesn’t fit his narrative, so he tries to micro manage the response, like LBJ in Vietnam.
You don’t mean the Kurds weren’t heartened by the threat to ‘bring the criminals to justice’?
Sorry, guys, but you don’t get it. Our Golfer-in-Chief did not intend that the aid be effective. It was all p.r. eyewash for consumption by the fawning US news media.
Choose a road.
There are two heads to this snake that need to be cut off. The one in Iraq is Mosul and the other in Syria is Raqqa.
What do you know...the man has a PLAN on how to defeat ISIS.
How many rounds of golf did the Kurds play to come up with a strategy? Zero!
It would be nice if, just once, instead of posing for the TV cameras the Obama administration officials could at least try to figure out what they are supposed to be doing.
“How many rounds of golf did the Kurds play to come up with a strategy? Zero!”
The immediacy of their situation makes them approach ISIS more seriously than Barry...
Because Barry doesn’t understand the immediacy of OUR situation.
That would get 0bama's attention and maybe he could help if they threw in some big campaign cash for The Team.
True.
http://www.npr.org/2014/08/23/342481660/kurdish-forces-say-theyre-waiting-for-u-s-weapons
And half of it will end being used against the Turkish military as the Kurds try to carve out a homeland in southern Turkey and northern Iraq.
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