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Jordanian King: U.S. Thinks It Knows Middle East Better than Its Residents
(The Hill) Jessie Hellmann - In an interview with "60 Minutes," the king of Jordan, Abdullah II, says to fight terror, the world has "got to get ahead of the curve because they're reacting much quicker than we are." He said one problem in the fight against global terror is that the U.S. thinks it knows the Middle East better than the people who live there. "The problem with the West is they see a border between Syria and Iraq. ISIS does not. And this has been a frustration, I think, for a few of us in this area with our Western coalition partners, for several years. You know, the lawyers get into the act and say, 'But there's an international border.' And we say, 'For God's sake, ISIS doesn't work that way,'" he said. "So if you're looking at it and want to play the game by your rules, knowing that the enemy doesn't, we're not going to win this."