This is too complex a situation for John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and other warhawks to understand, so they would not have been able -- or had the political courage -- to make it happen.
President Obama has probably pulled off a diplomatic coup and a strategic wise move.
You see, the effort to deal with ISIS cannot be just us going in there as an outsider. That would only make more enemies who would blame the U.S. for all the problems. It has to be a cooperative effort involving all sides against ISIS. And Iran has good reason to want to help defeat this radical group of Muslim extremists, who do not represent the Islamic faith. *
The BBC is reporting that Iran's Supreme Leader, the Ayatollah Khamenei, "has authorized his top commander to co-ordinate military operations with the U.S., Iraqi and Kurdish forces."
Finding a solution to this is beyond the war-jockeys who can't think beyond "bomb, bomb, bomb, Iran." That is why we are so fortunate to have a man like Barack Obama as president of the United States at this time.
He knows how to play three-dimensional chess and has the guts to hold out for it, when others berate him for not being a rapid-fire checker player.
Ralph
* Here is how Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf put it:
"While these terrorists insist they are governing under Islamic law and are carrying out their atrocities in the name of Allah, they are nothing but thugs and assassins who are desecrating a religion and blaspheming the name of Allah."
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