Our investment of $25 billion in the Iraqi national army failed--failed miserably--because when you say they all ran, 250,000 of them, in the face of 30,000 ISIS fighters, well, certainly because Iraq is a majority Shi'a country, many of those fighters would be Shi'a.
Discussing the failure of U.S. investment in the Iraqi army against ISIS.
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