Tuesday, March 10, 2015

A Wasted Opportunity To Lead In The Middle East

Leadership: The U.S. is cutting intelligence to Israel, denying drones to Jordan, freezing military aid to Egypt and annoying Saudi Arabia. Yet these are the boots on the ground in the war against IS. What a waste.
A dispassionate observer might just ask which side the U.S. is on in the global war on Islamic State terror, given the recent string of decisions coming out of the Obama administration.
Israel is being denied critical intelligence at a time when Islamic State and a nuclear Iran threaten it from all sides. Relations are so bad there've been stories — denied by the U.S. — about U.S. threats to cut military aid and shoot down Israeli aircraft if they attack Iran.
Jordan has been denied permission to buy drones from San Diego-based General Atomics at a time when the barbarians are getting even closer to its gates and are committing some of the war's worst atrocities against Jordanians. King Abdullah's country has also shown a courageous willingness to lead in the war on IS, pulling once-discouraged allies such as the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain back into the alliance.
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