US Secretary of State John Kerry said in an interview with BBC World on June 24th regarding developments in Iraq: “Just a strike alone is not going to change the outcome. You need to have a full-fledged strategy that is being implemented which is principally a political strategy. Even President Barzani and his folks today said they concur there is no military solution, there may be military action, but there has to be a political solution.”
“What President Obama is trying to do is encourage that process to come together as rapidly as possible because without it everything else would be wasted,” he added.