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发帖数: 10729 | 1 Fury as Obama blames intelligence agencies for Isil surprise
President Barack Obama was facing a fierce political backlash on Monday
night after he blamed US intelligence chiefs for being caught by surprise by
the sudden rise of the Islamic State (Isil) terror movement in Iraq and
Syria.
In a highly unusual step, Mr Obama singled out James Clapper, his director
of national intelligence, when asked by a television interviewer whether he
had underestimated the threat posed by Isil after its fighters burst across
the Syrian border into Iraq this summer, capturing large swathes of
territory.
“I think our head of the intelligence community, Jim Clapper, has
acknowledged that they underestimated what had been taking place in Syria,”
Mr Obama told CBS News.
The president’s apparent unwillingness to take responsibility for his
administration’s failure to foresee the threat was met with disbelief by
both policy experts and senior Republicans, who have long warned of the
risks of ceding strategic space to the jihadists in Syria.
“This was the ‘dog ate my homework speech’,” Senator John McCain, the
former Republican presidential candidate who has long called for Mr Obama to
arm moderate rebel forces in Syria, told Fox News, adding that Mr Obama
should follow other presidents and admit his mistake.
“Every president in history had made a mistake, acknowledged it and then
moved on. President Reagan with Iran contra, President Clinton in Bosnia,
President George W Bush after the debacle in Iraq, when he started the surge
- but it doesn’t seem to be in this president’s DNA,” he said.
Mr Obama’s foreign policy approval ratings are at a historic low, with
almost 60 per cent of American disapproving of his handling of foreign
policy – a number that has not improved since the president began
implementing his strategy to “degrade and destroy” Isil.
Frederic Hof, the former State Department special adviser on Syria now with
the Rafik Hariri Center in Washington, who argued for greater support for
the rebels but later resigned in the face of White House opposition to the
policy, said the intelligence community was not to blame.
“I very much doubt that the intelligence community was asleep at the switch
while Isil was gaining strength in Syria,” he told The Telegraph, “None
of this was exactly hidden from view.
“No doubt President Obama and his advisors were perplexed when it came to
policy options, and no doubt the scope and speed of the Isil thrust into
Iraq were surprising. But I doubt that the US intelligence community is to
blame for any policy shortfalls."
The White House denied that Mr Obama was trying to shift the blame away from
himself and onto the intelligence community.
“That is not what the president’s intent was,” said Josh Earnest, the
White House press secretary, adding the president had “the highest degree
of confidence” in the intelligence community.
However Mr McCain warned of ‘blowback’ from the intelligence community
which already appeared to be moving to defend itself, with a former senior
Pentagon official who worked on Isil intelligence assessments telling the
Daily Beast website: “Either the president doesn’t read the intelligence
he’s getting or he’s bullsh------.” | t*c
发帖数: 8291 | 2 没有任何一个国家是低估了isis的。那些西方国家的情报机构都很清楚
自己国家有多少人去中东参加圣战，都是哪些人，所以他们一直是很清楚
事态的动向的。他们也很明白得知道穆斯林的圣战是什么性质的，
有多少杀伤力。 只不过， 决策者选择故意放纵穆斯林极端力量。
他们养虎，是为了祸害别的国家。如果各政府真的重视这个问题，采取行动，
极端穆斯林会瞬间就丧失生存的土壤。
比利时已经对一个圣战ring提出了诉讼，名单上有46个极端穆斯林，
罪名是鼓动本国穆斯林去中东参与圣战。
只要把穆斯林的违法行为全部予以取缔，穆斯林就不会明目张胆得terrorize这个世界。
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: Fury as Obama blames intelligence agencies for Isil surprise
: President Barack Obama was facing a fierce political backlash on Monday
: night after he blamed US intelligence chiefs for being caught by surprise by
: the sudden rise of the Islamic State (Isil) terror movement in Iraq and
: Syria.
: In a highly unusual step, Mr Obama singled out James Clapper, his director
: of national intelligence, when asked by a television interviewer whether he
: had underestimated the threat posed by Isil after its fighters burst across
: the Syrian border into Iraq this summer, capturing large swathes of
: territory.
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