Andrea Mitchell: Saudis ‘Don’t Trust’ Obama Because He Failed To Go After Assad

‘You can’t, in fact, roll back what happened for three years’

MITCHELL: “You can’t in fact roll back what happened for three years. The Saudis and others in the region are very upset. They’re angry, they don’t trust this president to go after Assad, because he didn’t. And he is basically saying he outlining a war against ISIL in Iraq, based on an Iraqi army that has yet to be proved effective at all. So if you’re only going to fight them in Iraq, degrade them in Iraq, and then worry about Syria with the Syrian state army that we let down for three years, we have not armed them to their needs, how does that work? So it’s a strategy, it’s the clearest strategy."

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