With ISIS, A Long Road Ahead for U.S.

audio, with Wes Clark

According to Wesley Clark, a retired U.S. Army General and former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO in Europe, ISIS is tearing up traditional rivalries in the Middle East. He says that ISIS is the result of Saudi and Qatari funding, adding that the militant group was birthed by Baathist Sunni generals that adopted extremist Sharia philosophies.

“It’s using religious fervor as its motivating force,” says Gen. Clark. “We don’t want U.S. or Western ground troops involved in a religious struggle between Sunni and Shia Islam. The truth is, if you look at it through their eyes, the Saudis are fighting against the Shia hegemonial aspirations of Iran.”

Gen. Clark says that the Saudis, along with the West and the United States, are also vulnerable to the dangers of ISIS.

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