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    Obama Faces Criticism for Dithering against Jihadists

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    Post by rocky Sun Aug 31, 2014 6:19 am

    Obama Faces Criticism for Dithering against Jihadists




    NEW YORK– US President Barack Obama faced criticism on Friday after an admission that he did not have a strategy to deal with the Islamic State (IS) jihadists who have overrun swathes of Iraq and Syria and threaten Kurdish zones.

    Obama appeared before journalists on Thursday and said he had asked military and security chiefs to brainstorm ideas for defeating IS – which is also known as ISIS and ISIL – and acknowledged that: “We don’t have a strategy yet”.

    Republican Congressman Mike Rogers of Michigan, who chairs the House intelligence committee, attacked Obama for dithering against jihadists, whose Blitzkrieg advance began in June. “I’m not sure the severity of the problem has really sunk in to the administration just yet,” he said.

    In a press briefing on Friday, White House spokesman Josh Earnest sought to counter the attacks by asserting that the administration is already launching airstrikes that have stalled the IS advance and is working on long-term solutions.

    “Any strike or military action, if ordered, will be a component of a broader strategy for defeating ISIL and mitigating the threat that they pose to the US and Western interests,” he said. “It will be done with our partners in the Iraqi government, governments in the region and countries around the world. This will be a joint effort.”

    The US military has carried out aerial surveillance on IS for months and on August 8 launched air strikes against the al-Qaeda offshoot in Iraq to counter assaults on Peshmerga forces in Kurdish zones following a rapid advance.

    Obama’s decision earlier this week to conduct surveillance flights on IS forces in Syria raised questions about potential US airstrikes there – a controversial move that could necessitate cooperation with the country’s President Bashar al-Assad, who is accused of atrocities on civilians.

    Another complexity for the White House is the fragility of Iraq, where national forces put up little resistance to IS, new Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi faces sectarian woes and Kurdish leaders express desires for independence.

    “The only way to push back on ISIL advances and restore stability and security across the whole country, is through a new inclusive government,” Tobias Ellwood, Britain’s minister for the Middle East, said on Friday after visiting the region. “I urged all Iraq’s leaders to work together urgently to form a new broad based, representative government that is able to respond to the needs of the whole of Iraq.”

    Meanwhile in the US, Kurdish-American fundraisers at the Salahadeen Center of Nashville, in Tennessee, will send 600 boxes of donated shoes, clothes and baby products to Kurdish refugee camps that cater to Yazidis and other minorities who recently fled IS terror in Sinjar.

    “Everybody here is talking about the crisis and what we can to respond positively and help the situation in our Kurdish nation,” Nawzad Hawrami, a charity organizer, told Rudaw. “The response has been wonderful; it doesn’t matter whether we are trying to help Muslims or non-Muslims.”

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