Possibly this could be true because with all the chaos there with the civil war going on it was a perfect time for ISIS to step in.
Isis could have been 'nipped in the bud' with attack on Assad in 2013 say ex UK defence chiefs
David Cameron urged the Commons to strike Bashar al-Assad in 2013
The rise of extremist terror group Islamic State (Isis) could have been avoided if the UK began attacks on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in 2013, according to two former defence chiefs.
"It's a great shame, something that we should be ashamed of, that we could have nipped this problem in the bud four years ago, but failed to do so," said Lord David Richards, a former general and the UK's chief of defence staff from 2011 to 2013 under Prime Minister David Cameron.
"Now millions of Syrians, and maybe many, many more are going to have their lives ruined because we failed to do what we could have done," Richards said on Thursday night (16 July) at London's International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Since the Syrian civil war began in 2011, more than 220,000 have died in the conflict, and, according to the UNHCR, there are more than four million registered Syrian refugees in Turkey, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan, and Egypt. In total, 7.6 million Syrians have fled their homes because of the fighting.
Hundreds of refugees from the conflict have also perished on migrant smugglers' ships as they attempted to cross to Europe via the Mediterranean.
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Isis could have been nipped in the bud with attack on Assad in 2013 say ex UK defence chiefs
Isis could have been 'nipped in the bud' with attack on Assad in 2013 say ex UK defence chiefs
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By Graham LanktreeJuly 17, 2015 18:58 BST
Updated 7 hr ago - 3
David Cameron urged the Commons to strike Bashar al-Assad in 2013
The rise of extremist terror group Islamic State (Isis) could have been avoided if the UK began attacks on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in 2013, according to two former defence chiefs.
"It's a great shame, something that we should be ashamed of, that we could have nipped this problem in the bud four years ago, but failed to do so," said Lord David Richards, a former general and the UK's chief of defence staff from 2011 to 2013 under Prime Minister David Cameron.
"Now millions of Syrians, and maybe many, many more are going to have their lives ruined because we failed to do what we could have done," Richards said on Thursday night (16 July) at London's International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Since the Syrian civil war began in 2011, more than 220,000 have died in the conflict, and, according to the UNHCR, there are more than four million registered Syrian refugees in Turkey, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan, and Egypt. In total, 7.6 million Syrians have fled their homes because of the fighting.
Hundreds of refugees from the conflict have also perished on migrant smugglers' ships as they attempted to cross to Europe via the Mediterranean.
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Isis could have been nipped in the bud with attack on Assad in 2013 say ex UK defence chiefs
