Posted on 09/07/2014 9:17:57 PM PDT by Steelfish
Arab States Skeptical of U.S. Plan to Combat Islamic State Militants Obama Seeks to Galvanize Middle East Coalition to Fight Extremists
By JAY SOLOMON Sept. 7, 2014 WASHINGTON—A chief element of President Barack Obama's plans to combat Islamic State militants is to line up a coalition of Arab nations to help. Arab officials, so far, have been lukewarm about the idea.
Governments across the region are pressing the Obama administration to make clear what military, financial and diplomatic measures it is preparing to take against Islamic State before they sign on to any U.S.-led coalition, said...
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LOL!
Personally, I wouldn’t ally with this country for anything at all.
The only thing one can count on from America is a knife in the center of one’s back.
Where else would he be? It's his favorite place.
The Arab league which has loudly condemned ISIS has over a thousand advanced jet aircraft within striking distance os ISIS. How many sorties have they carried out?
and exactly what are these ‘ Arab nations’ doing to the help the situation ? Secretly funding ISIS and allowing them to recruit in their mosques ?
We should charge the Arab states vast fortunes , fortunes that get further distro’d to the troops , putting their pay on the level of contractors , and send them in with full resources and NO ROE’s . A bunch of uniformed US troops wit those incentives would set matters straight in no time at all . But we should be PAID , and paid well , to do it .
I’m more than a little skeptical of yet another attempt by this country to persuade countries at risk to prepare to defend themselves, then to have them question us as to what prestige, blood and treasure we are prepared to commit to save them from a problem of their own creation.
Until they start calling us infidels and crusaders and ambushing our people?
And Obama is competent to broker another lousy deal with our friends, the Arabs?
How realistic of them.
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