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“The Western alliance should have supported the Sunni opposition against the Assad regime from the beginning. As far as Iraq is concerned, if it had stayed stable the way it was in 2008, IS would not have been able to expand in Iraq the way they did. The mistake was that Barack Obama withdrew the armed forces from Iraq too fast.”

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Paul Wolfowitz, born on December 22, 1943, is an American politician and scholar. He has held significant positions in the Clinton and Bush administrations and has had a wide-reaching influence in the field of international relations. more

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