CENTCOM commander, General Austin, said of the foreign jihadis in Syria:
“You know, when I took command about a year ago, we were talking about 800 to 1,000 foreign fighters being in that country,” he said. Now, the intelligence community says it’s 7,000 to 8,000, which means it’s grown by orders of magnitude within one year.”
I'd just like to note that during the Iraq War, opponents of the war said that the only reason (far fewer) foreign jihadis entered Iraq was because we were a magnet and provocation. If only we left, Iraqis would sort things out by themselves.
We aren't in Syria, of course.
Oh, and in Iraq, jihadis are running loose in Anbar province and still holding cities and towns.
We aren't in Iraq, now, of course.
