Ashton Carter actually said...

The reason for that was a political failure on the part of their government to keep the promise that had been made to the country to keep it a multisectarian state.

Context

Carter attributes the failure of Iraqi forces to a political failure in maintaining a multisectarian state.

03/02/2015

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