Former US ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton says his country should make a new Sunni country from the current fighting in Iraq and Syria.
“I think our objective should be a new Sunni state out of the western part of Iraq, the eastern part of Syria run by moderates or at least authoritarians who are not radical Islamists,” Bolton told Fox News.
Bolton claimed: Precisely. Look, the Kurds now are de facto independent. They're not going back into Iraq under any circumstances voluntarily and I don't know anyone who's going to push them back. The Arabs divided between Sunnis and Shias -- I think the Sunni Arabs are never going to agree to be in a state where the Shia outnumber them. That's what ISIS has been able to take advantage of.
The Republican foreign policy hand also attacked President Barack Obama for his policy in fighting against the ISIL terrorist group.
“We are losing, there’s no doubt about it,” Bolton said on Sunday.
He said the Obama administration has been “in denial about the war on terror for the last six-plus years.”
“I think they’re blinded by their own ideology,” he continued. “They think this will inevitably lead to our involvement overseas.”
Bolton also called on the United States to help Turkey and the Arab states to destroy ISIL, saying those countries need “American leadership.”
“The Arab states and the Turks can’t do it alone,” he said. “It’s wrong to say, ‘It’s their problem, let them deal with it.’”
