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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Engel: Obama Admin Continuing Same ISIS Strategy ‘Definition of Stupidity’
Thursday on MSNBC’s “The Rundown With José Díaz-Balart,” while
discussing ISIS now controlling more than half of Syria, NBC News’ chief
foreign correspondent, Richard Engel said ISIS success “raises enormous
questions” about the Obama administrations strategy.
He added, “The definition of stupidity, frankly, is continuing on the same
course expecting a different result.”
“I didn’t think of any reason why you would dispute that,” Engel said. “
It’s not a traditional nation, it doesn’t have a seat at the U.N. It’s a
terrorist state but it’s a state that international efforts, u.s.-led
efforts have not been able to dislodge. And it seems to be getting bigger.
Although the U.S. Leading an air war against Iraq, or in Iraq and Syria
against ISIS, the group is continuing to expand and I think it raises
enormous questions about the strategy. It raises huge questions about do
things need to change. Can the U.S. Continue on its course even when the
definition of stupidity, frankly, is continuing on the same course expecting
a different result. We may be heading in that direction.”
He continued, “The problem is that in each case the regimes, the Iraqi
regime and the Syrian regime are incredibly weak. The Syrian regime has been
fighting off this civil war for the last four years, roughly. And it’s
been fighting it off with sometimes U.S. support trying to weaken the Syrian
regime and now the Syrian soldiers effectively collapsed and weren’t able
to fight in Palmyra. Now you see ISIS holding yet another historic city in
Syria. A very beautiful, very significant and important city that could very
likely be bulldozed by ISIS militants. And the same situation in Ramadi.
The Iraqi government which was already weak, already corrupt, already
sectarian, the soldiers just wouldn’t the, the Iraqi soldiers wouldn’t
fight for the government and once again their uniforms and ran away.”
On ISIS capturing ancient Palmyra, he added, “It’s beautiful, it’s
fantastic, I’ve been there. It’s an absolute tragedy to see this city
which could be witnessing — which has stood for millennia, which could be
witnessing its final hours with ISIS moving in. ISIS, a fundamentalist group
that believes in the caliphate, that believes that only its version of
Islam is correct and that anything that came before it is not only darkness
but that is a distraction from Islam and that should therefore be
obliterated. It’s possible in the coming hours and days we could see
another crime against cultural humanity carried out by ISIS.” |
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