To combat the terrorists in Iraq and Syria, President Barack Obama says the U.S. must ease the religious animosity between Sunni and Shia Islamic sects.
To combat the terrorists in Iraq and Syria, President Barack Obama says the U.S. must ease the religious animosity between Sunni and Shia Islamic sects.
In an interview with CBS' "60 Minutes" to air Sunday night, Obama described the U.S. role in combating terrorist threats posed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
"Part of our solution here is going to be military," Obama said in a preview of the interview on CBS' "Face the Nation." "We just have to push them back" in Iraq and Syria, where terrorist fighters have taken advantage of the weak central governments.
Simultaneously, "we have to come up with political solutions in Iraq and Syria in particular — but in the Middle East generally — that arise an accommodation between Sunni and Shia populations that right now are the biggest cause of conflict — not just in the Middle East — but in the world," Obama claimed.
Obama acknowledged that his administration overestimated the Iraq army's ability to fight ISIL. "That's true. That's absolutely true," he claimed.
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