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US blocks attempts by Arab allies to fly heavy weapons directly to Kurds to fight Islamic State
Telegraph ^ | 1 Juy 2015 | Con Coughlin

Posted on 07/01/2015 3:31:59 PM PDT by Fractal Trader

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[Obama turns his back on Kurds, turns down Arab states who want to arm the Kurds — just one more failure on the strategy front against ISIS.]

Obama is accommodating the Iranians who want neither the Kurds nor any Iraqi Sunni militia armed with anything heavier than a Mosin–Nagant, bolt-action carbine.

The White House, since 2009—when Obama ignored pleas for help from Iranian election-fraud protesters—has acceded to the mullahs on decisions ranging from the U.S. evacuation from Iraq to U.S. relations with Israel.

With Obama as their co-conspirator Iran has shaped U.S. Middle Eastern policy more than the White House, dangling a nuclear treaty like a shiny object to seduce this deluded rube.

41 posted on 07/02/2015 8:25:00 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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Turkey’s Erdogan says will ‘never allow’ Kurdish state
ISTANBUL | Sat Jun 27, 2015

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - President Tayyip Erdogan was quoted on Saturday as saying Turkey would never allow the formation of a Kurdish state embracing its south-east and parts of northern Syria, comments likely to anger Kurds as a peace process with Ankara stalls.

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42 posted on 07/02/2015 10:18:50 AM PDT by Fitzy_888 ("ownership society")
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Yep, but that would be extremely right of you to suggest that, very diplomatic, and since we have no real diplomacy, or credibility left in the world, who does that benefit???


43 posted on 07/02/2015 5:00:46 PM PDT by stevie_d_64 (I will settle for a "perfectly good, gently used" kidney...Apply within...)
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