Iraqi Diplomat Wants Obama Engagement In al Qaeda Crisis -- Washington Times
Ambassador praises Bush’s ‘ownership’ of relationship
Iraq’s ambassador to Washington says the Obama administration doesn’t fully grasp the consequences of failing to more aggressively combat a surging al Qaeda threat inside his country, pointedly suggesting that President Obama has been less engaged with Baghdad than his predecessor.
“The administration has to have a better understanding of any adverse impact of any delay in provision of support to Iraq,” Ambassador Lukman Faily told The Washington Times in an interview Wednesday. “It cannot afford a whole town or province of Iraq falling to al Qaeda and becoming a safe haven. It’s against the U.S. strategic interest. It’s against the U.S. national security to do that.”
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My Comment: If I was in the White House I would be advising the President that we should continue staying out of Iraq's internal problems .... they brought this among themselves and U.S. engagement may only worsen the situation. But the White House is trying to make amends .... even though the damage has already been done.
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That Moonie owned paper is of coruxse very anti-Obama and would prefer to send Am troops to Iraq to die in order to support a nation (?) unable to fix itself after all this time. Cut losses!
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