developments as they unfold. riti are ettinoug critics would say, are we getting enough? are we getting our money s worth for the billions we spend on intelligence? are those serious mistakes? no, the world is a complicated place. there are a number of developments that are going on right now in countries that unfold with great speed as well as a result of some of the actions that individual political leaders take. unfortunately, the challenges that government face on a number of the countries are significant. speaking of misjudgments, a special national intelligence estimate concluded that the pull out by president obama of all of our troops from iraq in december of 2011 set the stage for the spread of isil. wasn t the pull out a mistake? the fault lies with the number of the iraqis who wasted, squandered the opportunity they had after the government was
developments as they unfold. but critics would say are we getting enough? are we getting our money s worth for the billions we spend on intelligence? aren t those serious mistakes? no. the world is a complicated place. there are a number of developments that are going on right now in countries that unfold with i think great speed as well as result of some of the actions that individual political leaders take. unfortunately, the challenges that government faced in a number of these countries are significant. speaking of misjudgments, a special national intelligence estimate concluded that the pullout by president obama of all of our troops from iraq in december of 2011 helped set the stage for this spread of isis. wasn t the pullout a mistake? i think the fault really lies with a number of the iraqis who wasted and squandered the opportunity they had after the government was reconstituted,