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| Iraq |
| No military intervention in Iraq sans UN backing France |
| 2014-06-21 |
| [Iraq Sun] La Belle France will not consider a military option to stop Death Eaters' offensive in Iraq until it receives the UN green light, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Friday. Asked by the news channel BFMTV about a possible French military intervention in the strife-torn oil-rich nation, the country's top diplomat said: "We have a principle: we could intervene if there was a request from the Iraqi government and with UN authorisation." "Western intervention can be effective if it is backed up by a unity government. With or without Maliki, what Iraq needs is a government of national unity," Fabius stressed. Fabius also warned that "the situation in Iraq is extremely serious," as "it is the first time that terrorist group threatens to take control of a state", Xinhua reported US President Barack Obama I am the change that you seek... has announced he was sending up to 300 US military advisors to the Arab country after gunnies captured two northern cities and sectarian violence rocked the already fragile political stability. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Frankly Heh. While we may taunt the French, nobody in their right minds would stick their hands in that tar baby without a well-defined goal. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2014-06-21 11:03 |
| #2 The French seem to do fine without the UN when it seems in their best interests. Frankly (u c wut i did thar?) what in the hell can they gain in the cesspool of Modern Messopotamia? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-06-21 08:22 |
| #1 Ask yourself Fabius, "What would de Gaulle do?" Yeah, that is right, make France's actions contingent on others.~ Perhaps bowing to the dysfunctional UN is easier than saying "Too many rats on that sinking ship". |
| Posted by: Squinty 2014-06-21 01:44 |