The Director of the Central Intelligence Agency John Brennan said that there has been an unfortunate turn of events over the last several years.
When the Syrian revolution started, the Arab spring, there was no such thing as Daesh, he noted in an interview with PBS on Wednesday.
Daesh was al Qaida in Iraq and it was just less than 1,000 individuals. There was a wave then of developments inside of Syria and Iraq that resulted in current-day Syria, Brennan underlined.
"No one could have envisioned that, in terms of the series of events that took place. So, do we lament what has happened in Syria? Absolutely. If we had a chance to do it over again, would there have been some adjustments and changes? I can’t speak for policy-makers. I’m not a policy-maker", he said.
"But when I look back, in light of the way things evolved, I think that there could have been some adjustments to some of the policies, not just by the United States, but by other countries, in order to address this question earlier or, and not allow the Daeshs and the Jabhat al Nusra, the al Qaidas to gain momentum and steam and taking advantage of the destruction of that country", he added.
Source: MENA
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