Post by warrior1972 on Apr 13, 2015 17:55:02 GMT -8
Washington (CNN)—ISIS is a problem that is "off the charts historically" and has sent the United States into "uncharted territory" when it comes to putting down the terror group, the Obama administration's point man in the fight recently told CNN.
The comments, which Brett McGurk made in an exclusive interview, were some of the administration's strongest to date in describing the challenge the United States and its allies face in battling ISIS.
"This is a problem that is off the charts historically," he said, referring to the more than 20,000 foreign fighters who have gone into Syria. "Just put that into perspective: It's about twice the number that went into Afghanistan in the 1980s over a 10-year period to fight the Soviet Union, and those came really from only a handful of countries."
He concluded, "We're in unchartered territory here."
us.cnn.com/2015/04/13/politics/mcgurk-isis-terrror-threat/index.html
