Jimmy Carter: Obama dropped the ball on ISIS threat
Former president Jimmy Carter has criticized the Obama administration’s handling of the crisis in the Middle East and the growing threat of the Islamic State, joining a growing list of the president’s allies who are scrutinizing his strategy in Syria and Iraq.
In an interview with the Fort Worth, Texas Star-Telegram published on Oct. 7, Carter said the US had waited too long to respond to the growing power of the Islamic State in Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) extremist group, which also goes by the name Islamic State.
“We let the Islamic State build up its money, capability and strength and weapons while it was still in Syria,” Carter said. “Then when [ISIS] moved into Iraq, the Sunni Muslims didn’t object to their being there and about a third of the territory in Iraq was abandoned.”
Carter added that the use of ground troops in addition to the current air campaign could ensure the US succeeds in Iraq. “If we keep on working in Iraq and have some ground troops to follow up when we do our bombing, there is a possibility of success,” he said.
President Barack Obama acknowledged last month that US intelligence did not anticipate the threat that ISIS posed in Iraq but has maintained that arming Syrian rebels would have been untenable, and might have led to militants obtaining arms.
(Courtesy of Liberty Times)
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WHO- Former president Jimmy Carter
WHEN- not given
WHAT- criticized the Obama administration
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WHY- the US had waited too long to respond to the growing power of the Islamic State in Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS)
Key Words:
1.dropped the ball:搞砸了
2.allies:（第一次世界大戰時的）協約國
3.scrutinizing:詳細檢查；細看4.extremist:極端主義者；過激分子
5.goes by :以...為名
6.rebels:造反者；反抗者；反叛者
7.untenable:難以防守的，不能防守的
8.militants:好戰的；富於戰鬥性的；激進的
ISIS is really brutal to kill so many poor people just for their region.
回覆刪除Obama finally had responded to what ISIS did brutally in order to protect the poor people.
Hope the world will become better.
It is brutal for ISIS to do such a bad thing.And people in that area are innocent.
回覆刪除I am glad that I live in Taiwan. Poor the people in Iraq.
回覆刪除The undeveloped country is poor than developed ones, so we should take more care of what they suffered from and gave them our big hands, and the world will be a better place.
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