CNN Fareed Zakaria GPS Blindsided How ISIS Shook the World November 24, 2015 02:39:00
Helping the iraqi government take on isis. but the biggest intelligence failure, the biggest policy failure, the biggest undestimation was not of the strength of the self-styled islamic state but of the weness of the iraqi state. in the middle of 2014, when isis started taking town after town in iraq, the iraqi army essentially laid down its arms and ran away. remember, this was an army that the united states had spent more than $25 billion building up, an army more than 200,000 strong. that's more than six times the size of isis and maybe more. and it was all rendered useless against the isis...
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