US VP Biden: We Couldn't Convince Our Mideast Allies to Stop Supporting Extremists in Syria - YouTube
US VP Biden: We Couldn't Convince Our Mideast Allies to Stop Supporting Extremists in Syria - YouTube Thursday October 9 th , 2014 at 1:37 PM 1 Share Published on Oct 3, 2014 US Vice-President Joe Biden has accused America’s key allies in the Middle East of allowing the rise of the Islamic State (IS aka ISIL or ISIS), saying they supported extremists with money and weapons in their eagerness to topple Assad in Syria. America’s “biggest problem” in Syria is its regional allies, Biden told students at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum at the Institute of Politics at Harvard University on Thursday. “Our allies in the region were our largest problem in Syria,” he said, explaining that Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the UAE were “so determined to take down Assad,” that in a sense they started a “proxy Sunni-Shia war” by pouring “hundreds of millions of dollars and tens of thousands of tons of weapons” towards anyone who would fight against Assad. “And we cou