The standby position of the Atlantic Alliance on the fight against the caliphate

The meeting of the Atlantic Alliance in Wales, highlighted the organization's position on the struggle for the caliphate. For those waiting for a unique point of view, the pronouncement of the Secretary General Rasmussen has been a disappointment. The Atlantic Alliance is to be engaged in a sort of political balancing act that takes into account three forces, somehow conflicting. The claim that the Atlantic Alliance has not yet received any request for personal commitment, for the story of Iraq, serving to allay tensions between its members. It is no secret that, apart from Britain, the European members are reluctant to direct engagement, but prefer alternative solutions, such as the supply of arms and equipment to the various forces already in the field; this is not enough, however, to Obama, who in addition to the political and logistical demands a more direct engagement in the conflict, so you do not only have USA on the responsibility and the burden of combating the forces of the caliphate. The president of the USA has to deal with internal opposition coming mostly from his party, which has become increasingly cool to the role of world police, repeatedly reproached the United States. The United States, however, are also the major shareholders of the Atlantic Alliance, the most important subject, and their opinion may be crucial in the organization's involvement in a direct involvement in both Iraq, and Syria. At the official level the Atlantic Alliance, precisely because of the lack of direct involvement, said he supported the initiatives of individual states to counteract the action of the caliphate; it is a position that clearly indicates which is the direction that the alliance intends to take when it will materialize the necessary political conditions. On the other hand, the threat of the Islamic state is such as to require not only the Atlantic Alliance, but the whole international community to take effective enforcement action against the caliphate, for the obvious threat it represents. For now, the biggest ally of Obama was the British leader Cameron, who urged alliance members to take the plunge and participate in a joint military action in Syria and Iraq. You may have used the tool of the training of the Iraqi military forces in an extensive way, to justify direct intervention at the international level, even after an explicit request of the authorities in Baghdad. Be advised that the responsiveness of the regular forces Iraqi military is currently very low and the same Kurdish fighters would not have received recent successes without the support of American military aviation. It remains to overcome the natural reluctance of the European partners, including the overlap of the Ukrainian crisis, which has more involved, due to its physical proximity, the governments of the members of the alliance of the old continent. The fear of getting into a spiral from which it will be difficult to get out quickly affects the decisions of the European allies, at a time that, on the contrary, requires quick decisions. In the background is the threat of the caliphate, not just limited to combat zones, but, more broadly, in a perspective of possible proselytizing among the Sunni masses present in the world, and then in Europe, as a possible target in the light of an increasingly less integration in Western societies, underdog, as well as cultural factors, including the very difficult economic situation and therefore able to polarize and exaggerate conflicts of individual social fabric.