Perhaps it is just payback time. The US has ignored the Arab states over Israel and the invasion of Iraq. Now when the Americans come begging for support, they can be turned down. There is very little risk this way, either of alienating sections of their own people sympathetic to ISIS or having the US decide they won't get further involved in an Iraq war now stretching back to 1991.
Looks like our allies are prepared to fight ISIS to the last American marine if necessary.
So 'we are going to bomb your country next week and there is nothing you can do about it' now provides legitimacy for bombing at will?
Perhaps it is just payback time. The US has ignored the Arab states over Israel and the invasion of Iraq. Now when the Americans come begging for support, they can be turned down. There is very little risk this way, either of alienating sections of their own people sympathetic to ISIS or having the US decide they won't get further involved in an Iraq war now stretching back to 1991.
Looks like our allies are prepared to fight ISIS to the last American marine if necessary.