Obama considers air strikes to stop militants in Iraq

President Barack Obama, whose rise was not dissociated from the Iraq war, consider air strikes in this country to help the Baghdad government to halt the advance of the jihadists. Among the options discussed include Obama sending drones, however, deployment of ground troops not on the table.

The victories of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (EIIL) disrupt the fallback strategy in the Middle East for the Obama Administration. White House, amid criticism for leaving early, has sought Thursday to clarify why U.S. disowned Iraq, under what conditions could now return and how the escalation of violence and sectarianism in this country can alter the the first power plans to withdraw from Afghanistan in 2016.

“Do not rule out anything because we played a lot at the time to make sure that these do not settle jihadists in Iraq or in Syria,” said Obama. The president added that his national security team ” is studying all options.” ” We do not contemplate putting troops on the ground,” his spokesman, Jay Carney explained. Barack Obama came to power in 2009 with the flag of his opposition to the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and promised the withdrawal fulfilled since late 2011, after failing an agreement between Washington and Baghdad to leave several thousand not military U.S. troops. But wielding a success in his foreign policy threatens to tarnish his legacy.

The violence of the past few days puts the President in a dilemma: either refrains from intervening and allows an escalation that throws into question the results of the withdrawal, or send planes or drones and rekindles memories of an intervention, but not troops, will be compared with which he refused, the U.S. divided and turned anti-Americanism.

“For years, President Obama has taken credit for ‘ end wars ‘ when, in fact, was taking the U.S. wars that were far from over,” writes The Washington Post in an editorial. In Syria, the president stopped in September a scheduled airline operation, but killings have continued.

Obama then decided to submit to a vote in the U.S. Congress attack the regime of Bashar al-Assad. Upon suspension of the operation, the vote was not held. But the decision to consult a precedent that Congress could cite the case of an air intervention in Iraq.

Iraq exposes the limits of the Obama doctrine: the idea that the president made in a recent speech at West Point (New York), that the U.S. will lead the world without having to solve the problems of other countries with military interventions. Those in the U.S. opposed the complete withdrawal in 2011, are now claimed their position.

” What Americans left Iraqi state was unable to function alone. What we build now crumbling,” Senator Republican John McCain, an Arizona senator and Democratic rival Obama in the 2008 presidential election, said in a speech. McCain called for the resignation of the national security team of President.

The escalation in Iraq is a disturbing omen for Afghanistan, another war in a Muslim country that the United States launched after the 2001 attacks. Obama announced the full withdrawal in late 2016, but the risk that the situation in Afghanistan resembles the Iraq condition – divided, corrupt, violent, reopens the debate on the calendar.

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