US has abandoned global leadership role, Iraqi Vice President says

[yota691]

US has abandoned global leadership role, Iraqi Vice President says

By Mick Krever, CNN

 

Updated 1154 GMT (1954 HKT) June 30, 2017

 

 

 

 

Iraqi VP: American leadership is 'absent' 02:33

The full interview airs during 'Amanpour' on CNN International at 2 p.m. ET (8 p.m. CET) Friday.

London (CNN)The United States has no clear plan for dealing with the various crises it faces in the Middle East, according to one of the top US allies in the fight against ISIS.

The Iraqi Vice President, Ayad Allawi, said the US was "absent" from its traditional role in maintaining global stability.

 

The capture of Mosul from ISIS is imminent, US-led coalition says

"There is a vacuum in the overall leadership in the world," Allawi told CNN's Christiane Amanpour, in an interview airing Friday. "The Americans need to ... get back to their role as an international power, an important international power."

"To me, there is no international strategy -- no strategy for the alliances that are fighting and have helped us in this part of the fight."

Iraqi forces, supported by the US, are in pitched battle to retake the last blocks from ISIS control in Western Mosul, the extremist group's last major stronghold in Iraq.

Allawi said that the despite the imminent military victory, the US lacked a broader strategy for fighting extremism, saying it was "absent" and lacked "clear-cut policies."

Speaking in Washington on Wednesday, US National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster insisted that US strategy in the region was working well. "We are being successful with our partners in Syria. We are being successful with our Iraqi partners," he said. "There's still a lot of work to be done."

But Allawi said the US had abandoned its leadership role.

 

 

 

 

 

Iraqi troops closing in on ISIS in Mosul 03:12

"There is no clear-cut policies where to go and what to do," Allawi said. "Even for Iraq, it's still premature. I think they are still deliberating on a kind of a strategy for Iraq. Nothing yet has materialized."

A wide spectrum of international forces -- including the US, the Kurds, Iran,and the governments of Syria and Iraq, -- have succeeded in fighting ISIS back from the stunning territorial victories it gained in 2014.

Mosul is now almost back in Iraqi government hands; across the border, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a coalition of mainly Kurdish and Arab fighters, launched the final phase of their battle to recapture Raqqa earlier this month.

But Iraq has intelligence that ISIS is attempting to "forge an alliance" with Al Qaeda, the Islamist group from which it was spawned in 2013, Allawi warned.

Discussions are taking place in both Iraq and Syria, he said -- mediated by former al Qaeda members who never joined ISIS. "It is the unification of the evil forces," he said.

[MyLadiesDaddy]

As we were the biggest reason that Mosul is liberated This nutjob must be relatively to Shabbs 

[blueskyline]

Thank You Yota . Stop worrying out loud Allawi . Do your job as VP . Help unify and secure your country . Try and rise as high as the greatness of your natural resources...

[boosterbglee]

Maybe he should try to make Iraq a better place....don't worry about our "role" in the world!

[mylilpony]

ummm, I dont think they understand that trump isnt going to announce what his plans are for post isis. They will know when he get's darn good and ready to tell them.

Edited July 1, 2017 by mylilpony

[jmartin1145]

Why cant I give LGD a plus?

[chinadawg]

What else do you expect from these monkeys,,,,,they can't find there azz with both hands.

[yota691]

Allawi: America is absent from the leadership of the world and do not have a strategy in Iraq

History of edits:: 2017/6/30 22:09 • 112 times readable

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saw Vice President Iyad Allawi, that the United States does not have a clear plan to deal with the multiple crises faced in the Middle East.

Allawi said in a press statement, said that the United States is "absent" from its traditional role in maintaining the stability of the world, adding that there is " a vacuum in leadership is fully in the world." 
" We are drafting their policy, but there are no clear policies where to go and what we will do, even for Iraq, is still too early to think they are still talking about a strategy for Iraq was not achieved anything yet, but I think that this will happen, when I do not know, but for me , there is no international strategy. " 
" It is not our strategy , and we hope to develop soon, especially in these policies should the political side , where the political landscape correct way and be representative of all segments of the Iraqi people." 
He noted Allawi , "I think that there is an absence in the leadership of the world, and Americans need to speed up their return to the role of an international force and significant, and the vacuum that has occurred and the return of the rise of Russia, China and problems in the heart of the world and the Middle East, can not go on forever." 
He said , "One important factor missing, as well as the instability in the whole world is because of Maflth America without clear policies and where they are going and what will they do ?!".

[WheresmyRV?]

Time to grow up and put your big boy pants on Iraq and stop looking to lean on us and stop asking for hand outs.  Enough is enough.

[Jaygo]

Seriously?? These guys