United States blocks attempts from Middle East allies to provide Kurds heavy weapons in fight with ISIS

The Middle East allies claim the United States is not providing adequate attention to the crisis.

The United States has blocked endeavors made by its Middle East allies to fly heavy weapons directly to the Kurds in Iraq who are battling ISIS. According to few of America's closest allied forces, President Barack Obama, along with other Western leaders - including David Cameron, are falling short, in terms of showing strategic leadership over the world's most critical security crisis.

MUNTINLUPA, PHILIPPINES (Catholic Online) - Middle Eastern allies are now claiming they are willing to "go [at] it alone" in supplying weapons to the Kurds, even if it means acting against Iraqi authorities and their American supporters - who want all of the weapons be directed through Baghdad, according to the Telegraph.

Last month, the US Senate vetoed an attempt by Kurdish cause supporters. Therefore, Middle Eastern officials have started trying to find ways to take the fight to ISIS without approval from the U.S.

"If the Americans and the West are not prepared to do anything serious about defeating ISIL, then we will have to find new ways of dealing with the threat, stated a senior Arab government official. "With ISIL making ground all the time we simply cannot afford to wait for Washington to wake up to the enormity of the threat we face."

European countries have helped arm the Kurds by providing them millions of pounds-worth of weapons, unlike the American commanders supervising all military operations against ISIS and blocking the arms transfers, according to the Telegraph.

The U.S. has also enraged its allies, especially Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the Gulf states by what those areas recognize as a lack of clear purpose and indecision in how the U.S. conducts the bombing operation.

"There is simply no strategic approach," one senior Gulf official stated.

Other members of the alliance claim that the United States' veto has blocked them from firing at identified ISIS targets. "There is a lack of coordination in selecting targets, and there is no overall plan for defeating ISIL."

 

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