Obama: ‘We want to get more Iraqi security forces trained’

Of course the United States is not the main cause of chaos in Iraq, Syria and much of the rest of the Middle East; and while Republican presidential candidates have unanimously condemned Obama’s “weakness”, none are proposing a radical change of policy.

Islamic militants with ISIS have been rampaging cross Iraq and Syria for more than a year.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomed Obama to Kruen, near the G-7 summit venue, a few hours before the meeting began on Sunday.

Obama and Abadi met one-on-one shortly before the president’s news conference.

It’s an appeal he was expected to make in his meeting with President Obama today.

White House press secretary Josh Earnest said Obama wants to look for “more efficient ways that we can offer assistance to Iraqi security forces” and he expects that will be part of the discussion among the G-7, which also includes Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Canada and Japan. “And so the details of that are not yet worked out”. “Where we haven’t, morale, lack of equipment, etc., may undermine the effectiveness of Iraqi security forces,” he said.

“This should be an easy case”, he said.

“Obama said the U.S. does not yet “have a complete strategy” to accelerate recruitment and training of Iraqi forces”.

Merkel said that “we want Greece to remain part of the Eurozone but we’ve got the clear message that solidarity… requires Greece to implement measures”.

“One of the things that we’re seeing in Iraq is that we’ve got more training capacity than we have recruits”, Obama said.

Obama underlined the need for isolating Daesh and including Sunni tribes to the system, in order to win the fight against the extremist terrorist group.

Voicing concerns like this has not gone over well with the Iraqis before.

Public relations on ISIL haven’t been going well for the administration. “We are all these months later and there’s still no strategy?” The next day, ISIL showed it was still a force to be reckoned with by seizing Ramadi.

“Both state and non-state actors are sending everything they’ve got at trying to breach these systems”, Obama said as he wrapped up two days of talks with world leaders in Germany.

The rest were deemed to have collapsed in combat with the militants or been tainted by sectarianism and corruption, and Obama deployed 3,100 military personnel previous year to try to rebuild the shattered Iraqi military into a force that can repel Islamic State. “In this context, we welcome the continued efforts of the global coalition to counter ISIL/Daesh”, the declaration said.

“We are still seeing thousands of foreign fighters flowing into first Syria, and then often times ultimately into Iraq“.

The strikes also coincided with fierce fighting in Al-Hasakah, where fighters from the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), an armed Syrian-Kurdish separatist group, clashed with ISIS fighters. “We’re reviewing a range of plans for how we might do that”, Obama said. That set off another round of criticism of the president’s strategy and it comes at a time, just remember last week, CNN/ORC poll found almost two-thirds of Americans do not approve of the president’s handling of the battle against ISIS.