{"id":54480,"date":"2014-08-10T07:59:28","date_gmt":"2014-08-10T11:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=54480"},"modified":"2014-08-10T09:09:40","modified_gmt":"2014-08-10T13:09:40","slug":"us-may-arm-kurds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54480","title":{"rendered":"US may arm Kurds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Finally some common sense in our involvement in our third incursion into Iraq. It looks like the Obama Administration may be helping to arm the Kurds so they can turn back the Islamic State’s forces in their region, according to the Associated Press<\/a>;<\/p>\n

U.S. officials insisted they could only sell arms to the government in Baghdad, even after Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki broke a written promise to deliver some to the Kurds. Their peaceful, semiautonomous northern region had been the lone success story to come out of the 2003 U.S. invasion.<\/p>\n

The U.S. has resisted arming the Kurds because Washington’s aim is to keep Iraq united. A strong Kurdish army could hasten independence for the Kurds.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, but they had no problem arming the Islamic State when they were Syrian rebels. They could have broken their little boycott of the Kurds when ISIS\/ISIL took Fallujah and signaled their intentions and capabilities but then someone might have thought they knew what they were doing in that case. Or they could have armed the Kurds a few weeks ago instead of dithering away precious time on the golf course. Let’s hope that the Departments of Defense and State can arm the Kurds while the president and his family are at Martha’s Vineyard without his guidance.<\/p>\n

While the US government struggles with a viable political strategy, so does America. In another Associated Press<\/a> article reporters catch quotes from Americans and no one really knows what to do at this point, which only highlights the need to finish what we start. <\/p>\n

This is our third incursion into Iraq, through the terms of four presidents who’ve had to deal with the complexities of Iraqi politics, and, with hindsight being 20\/20 vision, it’s clear that it all could have been avoided in 1991 if the politicians had stopped listening to what the American public (and the American press) thought and just dealt with Iraq to a successful conclusion. American public opinion doesn’t win wars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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