Posted on 07/01/2015 3:31:59 PM PDT by Fractal Trader
The United States has blocked attempts by its Middle East allies to fly heavy weapons directly to the Kurds fighting Islamic State jihadists in Iraq, The Telegraph has learnt. Some of America’s closest allies say President Barack Obama and other Western leaders, including David Cameron, are failing to show strategic leadership over the world’s gravest security crisis for decades. They now say they are willing to “go it alone” in supplying heavy weapons to the Kurds, even if means defying the Iraqi authorities and their American backers, who demand all weapons be channelled through Baghdad. High level officials from Gulf and other states have told this newspaper that all attempts to persuade Mr Obama of the need to arm the Kurds directly as part of more vigorous plans to take on Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) have failed. The Senate voted down one attempt by supporters of the Kurdish cause last month. The officials say they are looking at new ways to take the fight to Isil without seeking US approval.
“If the Americans and the West are not prepared to do anything serious about defeating Isil, then we will have to find new ways of dealing with the threat,” said a senior Arab government official. “With Isil making ground all the time we simply cannot afford to wait for Washington to wake up to the enormity of the threat we face.”
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Go through Baghdad so they can abandon them in the field to ISIS?
Sending arms via Baghdad also insures that the Kurds shall get none.
The Iraqi central government doesn't want the Kurds armed, as it will make them independent of Baghdad.
Nor do the Iranians -- who are telling the Shi'ite central government in Baghdad what to do -- want the Kurds to have heavy weapons. They've got their own "Kurd problem" and Barack Boy has no interest in pissing off his Irani "friends".
Accordingly, getting heavy weapons to the Kurds works against the interests of a.) ISIS, b.) the Iraqi central government, c.) Iran and d.) Barack Obama.
Sounds like a winner to me!
ISIS: Obama’s people..
The Kurds are too white for his tastes.
To seek the truth in this you must find out who, or what, benefits from ISIS expansion/solidification, and Iran having a verifiable nuclear capability...
Avoid (for now) trying to figure out a way to stop this, and it makes that discovery easier...
"An affirmative action journalist?"
British usage.
Learnt is the British spelling for learned. Similar for spelt/spelled.
Remember that back in the early days Kurds took out newspaper and TV ads to thank America for what we'd done for them and (the former) Iraq.
That alone probably has Mr. Soetero gnawing on his own leg.
You’d almost think Obola wants ISIS to win, wouldn’t you?
Any heavy equipment we ship to Baghdad will just end up in the hands of the Shiite militia. ..................................... so they can use them later for the ethnic cleansing of the Kurds.
The Kurds are the only thing between Iran and Turkey. Looks like Xero wants to give the entire eastern Mediterranean and Persian Gulf to Iran and is suckering Turkey into helping him because of their hatred for the Kurds.
Bullshit- Obama's strategy is working perfectly according to his plan- ISIS is winning.
That says it in a nutshell.obama is fighting on another side.
Me thinks Obama doesn’t want to piss off the Turks. Turkey is a muslim nation that is in NATO. sort of a beachhead if you will. Obama likes that.
You bring up a good point, there was a deal a few weeks ago to give billions of dollars in weapons to the Iraqis, this right after the Iraqi army turned and ran and ISIS got a bunch of those weapons. That could be the only reason. This story, first seeing it, made me very upset.
the IslamoNazis will be a lot easier to stop or slow down now than later, after they control even more territory (or terror-tory)... and after they finish their ICBM nuclear bomb arsenal
Starve the peshmerga,diss them, make them not a US ally and you drive a wedge between them and the US and Baghdad. This only creates more chaos and supports the reality that the U.S.Chicago regime--and Baghdad favors the Shiites.they want more help, men and machines from Iran instead of those directly effected by Isis the Kurds. It's all BS and hopefully will end when zero is thrown out of office.
Well said and exactly what is going on.
My take is Obama is minimally involved. He hates foreign policy. He loves domestic policy which is mostly vote buying, wealth redistribution, and racial agitation. My take is the useless females who run the State Department are calling the shots here which is pure mixed up confusion plus enabling Iran to get the bomb because they hate Israel. Plus brain addled septuagenarian John Kerry who is pure glory seeker with zero principles. FUBARED TO THE MAX!!!
Your take is definitely one of the possibilities—he’s not Machiavelli, he’s a feckless idiot.
My basic view is that most things that could be conspiracy can be explained by accident, error, and incompetence. BUT—and it’s a big BUT—when there is a conspiracy, it often turns out to be worse than could have ever been imagined beforehand.
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