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Former President Jimmy Carter has criticized the Obama administration’s handling of the crisis in the Middle East and the growing threat of the Islamic State, joining a growing list of the president’s allies who are scrutinizing his strategy in Syria and Iraq.

越來越多歐巴馬總統的盟友仔細檢視他的敘利亞和伊拉克策略，前總統卡特也加入，批評歐巴馬政府對中東危機和伊斯蘭國威脅日增的因應之道。

In an interview with the Fort Worth, Tex. Star-Telegram published Tuesday, Carter said the U.S. had waited too long to respond to the growing power of the Islamic State in Iraq and Greater Syria （ISIS） extremist group, which also goes by the name Islamic State.

卡特在德州沃斯堡「星電報」週二刊登的訪問中說，美國等太久才對「伊拉克與大敘利亞伊斯蘭國」（ISIS）極端團體日漸壯大的勢力有所回應；該組織又名「伊斯蘭國」。

“We let the Islamic state build up its money, capability and strength and weapons while it was still in Syria,” Carter said. “Then when [ISIS] moved into Iraq, the Sunni Muslims didn’t object to their being there and about a third of the territory in Iraq was abandoned.”

「我們在伊斯蘭國還在敘利亞活動時，任由他們累積資金、能力和勢力」，卡特說，「然後等（伊斯蘭國）進入伊拉克，遜尼派穆斯林並不反對他們在那裡建立據點，而且伊拉克約3分之1的領土被棄之不顧。」