“Over the past couple of years, during the chaos of the Syrian civil war, where essentially you have huge swaths of the country that are completely ungoverned, they were able to reconstitute themselves and take advantage of that chaos,” Obama said in an interview made on Friday but aired on Sunday. “And so this became ground zero for jihadists around the world,” he added. Obama echoed comments previously made by James Clapper, US director of national intelligence which acknowledge how IS in Syria had been underestimated. At the same time, Obama admitted that the Iraqi army’s capabilities in dealing...
[Source: rt.com] [ Comments ] [See why this is trending]