{"id":65352,"date":"2016-04-20T11:26:04","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T15:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65352"},"modified":"2016-04-20T11:58:25","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T15:58:25","slug":"obama-and-carter-in-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65352","title":{"rendered":"Obama and Carter in Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"

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According to the Associated Press<\/a>, the President is meeting with King Salman in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in hopes of strengthening relationships with the Kingdom. The Saudis are worried that Congress will blame the Saudis for 9-11 during their latest investigation. To express their mistrust of Obama, a lower-ranking prince met him at the airport;<\/p>\n

Stepping off of Air Force One earlier at King Khalid International Airport, Obama was greeted not by King Salman but by a lower-ranking royal, Prince Faisal bin Bandar Al Saud, the governor of Riyadh.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Mustafa Alani, a security analyst at the Gulf Research Center, said the Saudi decision not to dispatch a high-level delegation to greet the president was unusual and intended to send a clear message that they have little faith in him.<\/p>\n

“He will find a leadership that’s not ready to believe him,” Alani said. “The Saudis had disagreements with previous presidents. Here you have deep distrust that the president won’t deliver anything.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Meanwhile, Ashton Carter, the US Secretary of Defense, is meeting with regional defense ministers<\/a> to encourage them to put a little more skin in the game against ISIS;<\/p>\n

A senior defense official said the defense chiefs had a robust discussion, but came to no solid agreements on the increased aid.<\/p>\n

The official said it appears the Gulf nations will be willing to consider doing more. But the Sunni leaders want to wait until they see more political improvements in Baghdad and greater participation and aid for the Sunni population before they agree to do more. Iraq is a Sunni-majority country with a Shiite-led government.<\/p>\n

The U.S. has been unhappy with what the Gulf nations have been willing to do in the fight, both with their military forces and financial contributions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Basically, the Obama Administration has a good strategy for the war against ISIS, that being using US firepower to support the Arabs in their ground war against ISIS. However, in practice it’s not working out, mostly because the Arabs aren’t doing their part – that’s because Obama is depending on his incompetent team – Biden, Carter and Kerry – to do the hard work of convincing the Arabs to pick up their load. Because of political pressure from home, US troops can’t fight a ground war against ISIS with a restrictive set of rules of engagement that won’t allow them to kill the bad guys. The Arabs have no such restrictions. Obama should let Iran have their way with ISIS in order to convince the Arabs to do their fair share. <\/p>\n

The war against ISIS won’t be successful until they’re all bloody heaps in the sand, and only the Persians and the Arabs can do that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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