Friday, June 27, 2014

Will The U.S. And Israel Intervene In A Jordan - ISIS War?

Reuters

Israel Could Get Dragged Into ISIS’s War, Obama Admin Warns -- Eli Lake, Daily Beast

If ISIS threatens the survival of Jordan, the Obama administration believes, it would ask for help from two of the least popular countries in the Middle East: America and Israel.

The terror group that’s taken over major portions of Iraq and Syria won’t be content with roiling those two countries, senior Obama administration officials told Senators in a classified briefing this week. The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) also has its eyes on Jordan; in fact, its jihadists are already Tweeting out photos and messages claiming a key southern town in Jordan already belongs to them.

An ISIS attack on Jordan could make an already complex conflict nightmarishly tangled, the officials added in their briefing. If the Jordanians are seriously threatened by ISIS, they would almost certainly try to enlist Israel and the United States into the war now engulfing the Middle East.

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My Comment: Before Israel or the U.S. becomes involved .... my money will be on the Egyptians and Saudis intervening first.

1 comment:

phill said...

Us Yankees already have assets on the ground,f-16's, and anti air capabilities if this administration didn't intervene they'd lose face.

If this administrations didn't they'd lose all credibility to anybody that matters in this part of the world.