The ISIS jihadists appeared seemingly out of nowhere, waving black flags, robbing banks and ammunition dumps, and killing those they considered the wrong ethnicity or faith.
After the attacks last month, David Petraeus and Ryan Crocker didn’t necessarily want to say “I told you so,” but they wanted to say something. Petraeus had led the U.S. forces in Iraq, and Crocker had served as the U.S. ambassador there. They join other American leaders who bluntly explain what went wrong in Frontline’s new “Losing Iraq.”
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Crocker says in the film, airing Tuesday, that he and Petraeus were so worried about President Obama’s plan to get U.S.