In that April 2016 "Obama Doctrine" interview with Jeffrey Goldberg --
“When you have a professional army,” he once told me, “that is well armed and sponsored by two large states”—Iran and Russia—“who have huge stakes in this, and they are fighting against a farmer, a carpenter, an engineer who started out as protesters and suddenly now see themselves in the midst of a civil conflict …”
Wait long enough, isolate the rebels, and that's what the war has become, in Aleppo.
“When you have a professional army,” he once told me, “that is well armed and sponsored by two large states”—Iran and Russia—“who have huge stakes in this, and they are fighting against a farmer, a carpenter, an engineer who started out as protesters and suddenly now see themselves in the midst of a civil conflict …”
Wait long enough, isolate the rebels, and that's what the war has become, in Aleppo.
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