Posted on 02/11/2016 12:21:42 AM PST by Citizen Zed
John Brennan, the CIA director, told a Senate committee Tuesday that the violence and instability in the Middle East was the worst it had been in 50 years, painting a dire picture of a region he said was facing "unprecedented" bloodshed.
Brennan spoke at the Senate Intelligence Committee's annual worldwide-threats hearing, emphasizing the threats the US faces as the Middle East devolves further into chaos.
"The Middle East right now I think is racked by more instability and violence and inter-state conflict than we've seen certainly in the past 50 years," Brennan said. "And the amount of bloodshed and humanitarian suffering is I think unprecedented."
Brennan pointed to the Arab Spring uprisings that started in 2011 as the flash point for the chaos.
"I think it's been five years now since the Arab Spring started to take root, which had a very traumatic impact on governments throughout the region, and the street became alive," Brennan said. "Al Qaeda and terrorist organizations did not trigger that, but they've taken full advantage of it."
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