Posted on Jan 5, 2016
Iran-Saudi Rift Complicates U.S. Campaign Against ISIS
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The U.S. military braced Monday for possible fallout from the Iran-Saudi Arabia rift on the campaign against the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.
"It's not having an effect at the moment," but "it's something we're tracking closely," Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman, said of the escalating dispute between the Sunni Saudi kingdom and the Shia Iranians over the execution by the Saudis of a Shia cleric.
Iran has major influence over Shia militias in Iraq, and Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi made a point of keeping the Shia militias out of the recent offensive against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) that took the city center of mainly Sunni Ramadi about 70 miles east of Baghdad.
The U.S. had also warned that it would withhold air support for the Ramadi offensive if the Shia militias, known as the Popular Mobilization Forces, were involved.
The U.S. military braced Monday for possible fallout from the Iran-Saudi Arabia rift on the campaign against the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.
"It's not having an effect at the moment," but "it's something we're tracking closely," Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman, said of the escalating dispute between the Sunni Saudi kingdom and the Shia Iranians over the execution by the Saudis of a Shia cleric.
Iran has major influence over Shia militias in Iraq, and Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi made a point of keeping the Shia militias out of the recent offensive against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) that took the city center of mainly Sunni Ramadi about 70 miles east of Baghdad.
The U.S. had also warned that it would withhold air support for the Ramadi offensive if the Shia militias, known as the Popular Mobilization Forces, were involved.
Iran-Saudi Rift Complicates U.S. Campaign Against ISIS
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I can understand the Saudis response. What I cant understand is the lack luster response from the White House or State Department. This has the potential to become a very bad thing for everyone around and IF Iran succeeds at running the US Fleet out of the Saudis Port, you can count the Middle East as gone for a very long time
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PO3 (Join to see), the White House is also worried about the weather; they think that having a meeting about the weather will help in the war against ISIS.
Elections have consequences.
Elections have consequences.
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The world will feel the reverberations of the lack of a positive US foreign policy for decades.
"We live under the only government that ever existed, which was formed by the deliberate consultations of the people. Miracles do not cluster. That which has happened but once in six thousand years, cannot be expected to happen often. Such a government, once destroyed, would have a void to be filled, perhaps for centuries, with evolution and tumult, riot and despotism." - Daniel Webster - The Granite monthly: a magazine of literature, history and state, Volume 5, Page 7
"We live under the only government that ever existed, which was formed by the deliberate consultations of the people. Miracles do not cluster. That which has happened but once in six thousand years, cannot be expected to happen often. Such a government, once destroyed, would have a void to be filled, perhaps for centuries, with evolution and tumult, riot and despotism." - Daniel Webster - The Granite monthly: a magazine of literature, history and state, Volume 5, Page 7
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