“The disinterest, the lethargy of this president, the lassitude with which he pursues this war which he declared himself is simply astonishing,” says Charles Krauthammer of President Obama and the war in Syria. The Islamic State returned to the headlines this week after releasing video of burning a Jordanian soldier alive, months after the United States and Arab nations began military operations against the group.
“He hasn’t armed the Syrian rebels, the ones who are pro-Western. They have been withering on the vine. They’re being wiped out,” Krauthammer continued. “The weapons that the Kurds have been desperately needing have not been arriving. Jordan, which is our staunchest ally in the area, is short of weaponry, short of munitions, and it takes forever for that to get through.”
“It shouldn’t even be an issue” to deliver weapons, Krauthammer said. “A president steps in and says to the State Department and Defense Department, ‘I want this done.’ . . . This president is not interested.”
“The idea that Jordan — the smallest, the most fragile, the most isolated country in the region — should be leading this campaign rather than the United States is simply astonishing,” he said.
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