Obama
Administration blocks attempts to fly heavy weapons to Kurds to fight the
Islamic State
JULY 2, 2015 4:43 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER186
COMMENTS
“There is simply no strategic approach. There is a lack of
coordination in selecting targets, and there is no overall plan for defeating
Isil.” Indeed. The President keeps forcing people to ask the question, Which
side is he on?
“US blocks attempts by Arab allies to fly heavy weapons directly
to Kurds to fight Islamic State,” by Con Coughlin, Telegraph,
July 2, 2015:
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.”…
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.”
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