So our "allies" Turkey, UK and Germany have all refused to help fight ISIS?

[99th_Monkey]

But our "enemy" Iran is champing at the bit to help? Interesting developments.

Iran Offers Iraq ‘Everything it Needs’ to Fight ISIS
The Daily Beast * WORLD NEWS * 06.16.14

As ISIS marches closer to Baghdad, the world's leading sponsor of terrorism, Iran, is offering the Iraqi government the use of its army and spies. As President Obama weighs whether to re-enter the Iraq war, the country’s neighbor, Iran, is looking to step into the void.

U.S. and senior Iraqi officials tell The Daily Beast that Iran is now offering the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki its army, its spies and highly trained irregular units from its revolutionary guard corps to root out the Sunni insurgency that now threatens Baghdad. Gen. Qassem Solaimani, the commander of Iran’s elite Quds Force, arrived in Baghdad last week with an entourage of military advisers to begin preparations for such a counter-offensive. A member of the Quds Force has already allegedly been killed fighting in Iraq.

~snip~

“The offer to help us with everything we need has been made from the highest levels of the Iranian government,” a senior Iraqi official told The Daily Beast. This official stressed that Iran’s offer to assist Iraq’s fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham (ISIS) was not conditional on Maliki making any immediate reforms or changes to his government.

“We face an existential threat. Unfortunately, when people are desperate, they will take desperate measures. We will go to whomever we can partner with to deal with the immediate threat.”

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/16/iran-offers-iraq-everything-it-needs-to-fight-isis.html

http://www.businessinsider.com/iran-offers-help-with-isis-if-us-lifts-nuclear-sanctions-2014-8

[DontTreadOnMe]

1. Cut off All International Military funding... use THAT money to pay for OUR MILITARY.

Just move the accounting. Simple.

You don't help us, we don't help you.

U.S. will spend around $14 billion in fiscal 2013 for foreign military assistance – that's money spent on training foreign armies and providing them with weapons.

How about we just use the $14 billion and use it on US Military.

[merrily]

2. Gee, what about our good buddies, the Saudis? How about Kuwait for

whose benefit we fought Desert Storm? (Did Kuwait ever even pony up its $ share of that fight?)

[liberal_at_heart]

3. not entirely surprising. The entire Middle East is divided into Sunni versus Shiite which is exactly

why we don't belong in the fight. Getting involved in Iraq has pulled us into a never ending Middle Eastern civil war. The question is how many decades will we be involved in someone else's civil war?

[DontTreadOnMe]

4. Civil War? no, no, no... it's until the oil runs out.

Maybe 20 years at most. Then no one will be fighting over sand.

[Schema Thing]

5. No, not at all. They've said they won't take part in

military maneuvers on Syrian territory.


But you knew that.

[morningfog]

6. It remains to be seen what military role they will play, if any, in Iraq.

[GeorgeGist]

8. The article's from June ...

they've been active at least since then.

[99th_Monkey]

7. Yes, "I knew that" because that's what the article clearly says

I never said "Syria" in my post.