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Originally Posted by T-310
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It appears to be more complicated than you think.
Congress Voted Against Directly Arming Iraq's Kurds. Here's What That Means For The ISIS Fight.
Note that this article says that it is against US law to ship heavy weapons to areas that are not internationally recognized sovereign governments, which the Kurds are not. The Senate took a vote on allowing such shipments, but it failed (Obama opposed the measure).
To say that President Obama wants 'the terrorist to win' is childish. Yet there are layers upon layers at work here, I assume. For one, Iraq does not want the US to 'recognize' the Kurds as being independent, and it may well cause other problems that I am not aware of.
Obviously, our shipping heavy weapons to Iraq to arm their army has not worked well, since so many of those weapons have ended up in ISIS hands. I do feel that the Kurds, if allowed to have them, may ('may') make more proper usage of them; but perhaps they would turn their attention to gaining their own country separate from Iraq and Turkey. Turkey, an ally, would also oppose arming Kurds, for obvious reasons.
I still say: let those nations involved (including Turkey and Saudi Arabia, etc.) fight ISIS.
It is a shame that life is not as simple as many think. Of course, ISIS does have it simple: get weapons and kill.