Notice the article mentions nothing about the US. Some have said that Obama was slow to the action of supplying the Kurds, that the UK, France and Germany were there first.
The dog barks but the caravan moves on, Obama.
(of course, he wouldn’t understand the meaning of the proverb. as Obama is in his own little world.)
Reason being that Obama hadn't read about the plight of the Kurds in the newspapers yet................