US blocks attempts by Arab allies to fly heavy weapons directly to Kurds to fight Islamic State

Telegraph ^ | 1 Juy 2015 | Con Coughlin

[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.”

[Brad from Tennessee]

[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.

[Fitzy_888]

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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[stevie_d_64]

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???