President Obama turns blowtorch on craziness in the Middle East

By Paul McGeough
Updated September 26 2014 - 2:13am, first published September 25 2014 - 3:49pm
US Navy Super Hornets after receiving fuel over northern Iraq. Photo: AFP/US Air Force
US Navy Super Hornets after receiving fuel over northern Iraq. Photo: AFP/US Air Force
Ready and off: A US Air Forces refuelling squadron Stratotanker prepares for  a mission to Syria.
Ready and off: A US Air Forces refuelling squadron Stratotanker prepares for a mission to Syria.

Washington: Talk about a quick one-two - no sooner had US President Barack Obama cajoled the Sunni monarchs and princes of the Gulf to join his coalition's war on jihadi extremism, than he mounted the marbled podium at the United Nations to put a blowtorch to the same leaders as the authors of the calcified craziness of today's Middle East.

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