Ford said that the current state of affairs, in which the moderate opposition has now been forced to fight both the Assad regime and Islamist terrorist groups, is no surprise. Assad “physically does not control two-thirds of Syria,” Ford said. “And we warned even as long as two years ago that terrorist groups would go into that vacuum, as we had seen in places like Afghanistan and Somalia and Yemen and Mali.” “This is not rocket science. In a place where there is no government control, terrorist groups can infiltrate in and set up places where they can operate freely.” “And we warned this would happen in Syria, and it has. amanpour.blogs.cnn/2014/06/03/former-u-s-ambassador-to-syria-i-could-no-longer-defend-the-american-policy-robert-ford/
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