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US cagey on Iraq events, Iran upfront

Posted by seumasach on June 15, 2014

M.K.Bhadrakumar

Indian Punchline

14th June, 2014

From a long-term perspective, there can be no two opinions that the US President Barack Obama has taken the right decision not to dispatch American combat troops to counter the al-Qaeda affiliate Islamic State of Iraq and Syria [ISIS] which surged in the northern regions of Iraq earlier this week. In a nutshell, Obama’s statement late Friday can be summarized as follows in his own words:

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