The Obama Administration is continuing to try to downplay the reports of a secret letter sent by President Obama to Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on the topic of ISIS.
Today it was Susan Rice’s turn to downplay the situation, saying the US was “in no way engaged in any coordination – military coordination – with Iran on countering ISIS.”
Congressional hawks have been condemning Obama for the secret letter, saying it is “outrageous” that Obama would even communicate with Iranian officials, and that it threatened to harm ties with Sunni Arab nations.
Administration officials have not denied that the letter was sent, but have refused to discuss its content, and said their policy toward Iran has not changed. Since this letter is unprecedented, whatever the content their policy clearly did change.
Can Ms. Rice please explain why not? After all USG reinforcing its military presence in Iraq and bombing ISIS targets which means that USG is at war with ISIS, at least it can be understood as USG fighting ISIS, which in reality it means that USG needs all and every regional help they can get, at the same time there are others but not the Syrian government where Syria is targeted by ISIS. So the question is Ms. Rice why not?
Since the Iranians fought for seven years to establish Shiite rule in Iraq, I can't see why Obama doesn't just leave them to it. If they don't want to fight, as seems to be the case with the Iraqi army, the Sunnis can have it back. The rulers of the Islamic State, like everyone else, appear to just love oil money, so no doubt they'll continue to sell it to whoever will pay.
You mean the US fought for 7 years to establish Shiite rule in Iraq. Iran just had to sit and watch.
Today it was Susan Rice’s turn to downplay the situation, saying the US was “in no way engaged in any coordination – military coordination – with Iran on countering ISIS.”
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Congressional hawks have been condemning Obama for the secret letter, saying it is “outrageous” that Obama would even communicate with Iranian officials, and that it threatened to harm ties with Sunni Arab nations.
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It depends on how narrowly one defines "coordination."
I suspect the definition of coordiantion is "not what we are doing" no matter what we are doing.