And not all of them are Republicans, either:
Senator Lindsey Graham said Wednesday that Jordan was in desperate need of weapons in the fight against Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists, and he joined with other members of a key Senate committee to demand the Obama administration expedite military equipment to the country.
The South Carolina Republican said Jordanian King Abdullah II was "very committed to delivering a message to ISIS but his capabilities are not there to defeat ISIS."
Graham made the comments in an interview with Jake Tapper of CNN....
"He's running out of fuel and bombs," Graham said of Abdullah. "We will give him more bombs and more fuel — and they will put every fighter in the air they can....
This is a wee bit tougher for Barack Obama - a genuine dilemma, even. Why? Because Jordan is a Muslim country. As shamelessly as The One extols Islam, how can he deny a (fellow?) Muslim leader the help his country needs to survive the onslaught of a jihadist sub-state that he is ostensibly kinda-sorta-maybe-a-little-bit-partially committed to "degrading"?
And yet he evidently is finding a way:
Noting that Abdullah had begged for the aid in a Tuesday meeting with the panel, "we were concerned to hear from the king that Jordan is experiencing complications and delays in obtaining certain types of military equipment through our foreign military sales system," the senators wrote.
"Specifically, Jordan is seeking to obtain aircraft parts, additional night-vision equipment and precision munitions that the king feels he needs to secure his border and robustly execute combat air missions into Syria," they said.
The lawmakers asked for a briefing for congressional staff by February 13th for a status report on efforts to speed up aid to the nation.
"We believe that Jordan’s requests need to be addressed expeditiously, commensurate with their urgent operational needs in the fight against ISIS," the senators wrote.
They called on the administration to "adjudicate the cases associated with various requests made by the Jordanian Armed Forces with a sense of urgency … and in the context of their determined resolve to fight ISIS and the strengthening of our bilateral relationship and security cooperation." [emphasis added]
Now what could explain the Regime's lack of a "sense of urgency"? It is just ordinary everyday bureaucratic inefficiency? Is it King Hussein's trademark laziness? Is it another outgrowth of his "unseriousness" and "incompetence"? Or could it actually be that Barack Obama does not want to see ISIS destroyed, defeated, or even "degraded," and does want to see ISIS conquer Jordan, because that would bring Islamic State forces into direct, contiguous confrontation with an Israel that is already nose to nose with Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah/Iran in Lebanon and Syria? And remember the brief Muslim Brotherhood takeover of Egypt? If Mohammed Morsi was still calling the shots in Cairo, the Jewish State would have been facing complete jihadist encirclement.
The fact is, my friends, that, directly and indirectly (via all the U.S.-supplied military equipment and supplies that the disintegrating Iraqi army left for ISIS to appropriate), the Obama White House has provided vastly more military assistance to the Islamic State than it has to any of our allies in the region, and by refusing to crush them like we easily could, even now, he is enabling them to consolidate their conquests to date and prepare for more blitzkriegs to come.
Like the one into Jordan.
I guess King Abdullah might just as well convert to Judaism, since he's looking more and more likely to share the Israelis' grisly fate.
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