Iraq's leaders must make a "serious and sincere effort" to set aside sectarian differences if they want military assistance from the United States, President Obama warned Friday.
The president said the rapid advances by Sunni Islamist forces in northern and western Iraq this week should "be a wake-up call" to the country's leadership.
The U.S. is ready to provide additional military assistance to Iraq, Obama said, although he ruled out sending troops. However, he said the aid was conditional on the Iraqi government's willingness to make reforms.
"We are not going to be able to do it for them," he said in a brief news conference at the White House before leaving Washington for a planned trip to North Dakota and the West Coast. Obama said the U.S. had gone to "extraordinary measures" to give Iraqis the opportunity for success.
The president had met Thursday with his top security advisors, and he said that over the last year the U.S. had been ramping up assistance for Iraq.
Obama had indicated Thursday that he may order direct military action in Iraq, a step he had ruled out since the U.S. ended its long war there.
His remarks Friday came after a number of former administration officials and private analysts urged strikes by drones or aircraft on the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the Al Qaeda-inspired militant group whose fighters were sweeping toward Baghdad.
U.S. officials had insisted for years that Iraq has been capable since the 2011 U.S. military departure of guaranteeing its own security.
Now the advance of ISIS has underscored significant weaknesses. Many Iraqi army troops have left their positions ahead of the militant group's advance, abandoning their weapons and armored vehicles to the invaders.
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