Your Opinion: Arab nations must share risk

Dear Editor:

Isn't it about time that Obama stops kissing up to the Arabs? Has no one told Obama that Arab nations actually have fighter jets?

Saudi Arabia has more F-15s than anyone but the U.S. and Japan. In 2011 we agreed to sell them 84 F-15s. They also have 24 Eurofighter Typhoons.

Jordan has 58 Lockheed F-16s and 28 Northrop F-5Es.

The United Arab Emirates has 79 F-16s and 68 Dassault Mirage 2000s.

Iraq has at least 12 Sukhoi-Su-25s. We agreed to sell them 30 F-16s. Twenty-four of the F-16s were supposed to have been delivered by mid 2014.

I think the delivery was held up because of fears that the Iraqi military would run away and let ISIS have them.

Are we to believe that the Arab nations can't afford missiles and/or ammunition? Why else are they not assisting one another in an effort to stop ISIS?

More importantly why isn't our president, as well as the leaders of other Western nations, telling them to get off their duffs and risk some of their sons' and daughters' lives? Are our so-called leaders so cowed by the Arab nations that they are afraid to speak out?

Our military probably does need to do some of the work to destroy ISIS, because ISIS is definitely a threat to the US; but the brunt of the risk of loss of life, as well as the cost of such action, should be borne by those most at risk, the Arab nations.