washington: The US should ‘’sit down and talk’’ with Iran over the crisis in Iraq, top Republican senator Lindsey Graham said yesterday.
Graham, a leading foreign policy hawk, also attacked President Barack Obama for what he said was his ‘’delusional and detached’’ response to the crisis.
In Iraq, Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isis) fighters are now outside Baghdad. On Saturday, while Obama was in California to attend a Democratic fundraiser and deliver a commencement speech, defence secretary Chuck Hagel ordered an aircraft carrier and two missile-carrying ships to the Persian Gulf, raising the possibility of imminent US airstrikes.
Also on Sunday Mike McCaul, the Republican chair of the House homeland security committee, told ABC’s This Week: ‘’Well, this is a crisis. It does call for a response, not going to Palm Springs for a fundraiser.’’The Guardian
