NEWSMAKER INTERVIEW:

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."

Asked whether the White House could do more to facilitate a tighter relationship with Iraq, Mr. Faily said, "to a certain extent they can. But we are no longer in a period in which we had President Bush, who took ownership of that relationship."


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He'll get the Gates treatment, lol.

I guess my Iraqi Dinars are going in the toilet.

Obama doesn't care if Iraq goes to the Islamists.

Quote from: supsalemgr on January 09, 2014, 02:08:37 PM
Obama doesn't care if Iraq goes to the Islamists.

How about the ambassadors comparison to Bush? He had to know that to Obama this would be an insult!

Quote from: redbeard on January 09, 2014, 02:18:38 PM
How about the ambassadors comparison to Bush? He had to know that to Obama this would be an insult!

The ambassador doesn't care either as he has no respect for Obama.