Obama asks Iraq to end sectarian policies

The United States president Barack Obama took action to help the Iraqi government to halt the advance of the militants. The commander of the U.S. warned that sending U.S. military aid is subject to the commitment of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s policies to include Sunni and Kurds and provide minimal security in the country.

Obama demanded that Al Maliki, whom Washington accused of feeding the chaos in Iraq by sectarianism and arbitrary decisions, “a serious and sincere effort” by diffusing sectarian differences, promote stability and respond to the legitimate interests of all sectarian communities Iraq. “We can not do it for them,” he said. ” And, in the absence of this kind of political effort, a short-term military action, including any assistance we can provide, will not succeed.”

Options mulled by U.S. president include aerial drone strikes, or traditional war, besides strengthening the existing support to the security forces in weapons, training and intelligence. Obama said he will take “several days” to decide. The deployment of ground troops, two and half years after the last American soldier to abandon Iraq after eight years of war, is excluded.

“It is time that the president present his plan to turn it to advantage and the spread of terrorism in Iraq and in a region that is critical to U.S. national interests,” Republican John Boehner, speaker of the House of Representatives, said in a statement. Obama promised to “consult closely” to Congress about a possible U.S. action, but avoided mentioning the possibility of submitting the intervention of legislators voting.

Some movements in Washington these days remind preliminaries frustrated intervention in Syria September 2013. Then everything was ready to attack the regime of Bashar Assad.  The difference now is that Obama weighing come to the rescue of an ally Government, to complicate the puzzle, has the support of Iran and faces insurgents in neighboring Syria to fight Assad.

Obama distrusts Al Maliki. He has always maintained that U.S. military power is insufficient to solve the internal problems of countries like Iraq or Afghanistan. At the same time, he believes the jihadists of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) may end up threatening American national interests, which would be a reason for military intervention, according to the principles that the president outlined two weeks ago in a speech military Academy at West Point. The Pentagon has dispatched the aircraft carrier George HW Bush to the region, according to CNN.

ISIL victories have put the Democrat Obama on the defensive. Republicans accuse him of having abdicated Iraq when the troops withdrew in 2011 because of lack of agreement with the Iraqi government. The withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan wars that his predecessor, Republican George W. Bush, began in response to September 11 were the central argument of foreign policy.

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