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Guest 07-01-2015 07:37 PM

For what it might be worth........

"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."


"The US has also infuriated its allies, particularly Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the Gulf states, by what they perceive to be a lack of clear purpose and vacillation in how they conduct the bombing campaign. Other members of the coalition say they have identified clear Isil targets but then been blocked by US veto from firing at them.
“There is simply no strategic approach,” one senior Gulf official said. “There is a lack of coordination in selecting targets, and there is no overall plan for defeating Isil.”
Western leaders increasingly accept that the “war on Isil” has not gone well, from the moment last year Mr Obama called the group a “JV [junior varsity] team” of jihadists compared with al-Qaeda. At that point, Isil had seized Fallujah, which US forces took in a bloody battle in 2004. It went on to take much of western Iraq and large areas of Syria, and in May took Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province."


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

I know the Telegraph has a bit of a rep, but this seems to be accurate. If you check the background, it appears to be valid all the way.

WHY is this not even in the US news ? What is going on ? What coalition ?

Guest 07-02-2015 10:05 PM

If the countries in the region refuse to contribute ground forces to fight ISIS why should the US or others? It is much more of a threat to them than to the USA.

Guest 07-02-2015 11:22 PM

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Posted by Guest (Post 1081819)
If the countries in the region refuse to contribute ground forces to fight ISIS why should the US or others? It is much more of a threat to them than to the USA.

So their success in in exporting their kind into the USA along with the home grown wackos here sworn to kill us is to be allowed to grow and nurture and carry out the uninterrupted ISIS objective is........OK to continue?
Not in the opinion of those of who do not think we should wait till they kill our family friends and neighbors.

We can see what sticking our heads in the sand has created in the Middle East.
They ALL need to be made to fear us and that will not happen with Obama in office.


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