Carter urges Iraqi to fight

Defense Secretary Ash Carter commented on fell of Ramadi to ISIS as largely due to the weak state of Iraq's military in State of the Union interview on Sunday.Carter believed that the Iraqi forces failed due to their lacking in willingness to fight while outnumbering the opponents. The US has been supplying the Iraqi force with weapon and trainings, however, as Carter remarked, it cannot supply the Iraqi with wills, and Carter, as several others, believes that Iraqi military must step up themselves and defend themselves. Meantime, Many senators, include John McCain, urged for sending more forces into Iraq with more air strikes and offensive means from the US military. However, those recommendations were not yet been forwarded to White House. Carter Also said that the US will continue to provide support to Iraqi military against ISIS, however the Iraqi themselves must be willing to fight in order to defend themselves.

- By Leiyang Guo
- link: http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/24/politics/ashton-carter-isis-ramadi/index.html