Efforts to stop the spread of Islamic State terrorists throughout Iraq are hampered by the lack of Iraqis willing to serve in the nation’s security forces, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter told a House panel today.The fall of Ramadi to the extremist group last month was “deeply disappointing” and prompted Defense Department officials to reexamine the ground campaign—a dual pronged strategy of airstrikes and the training and equipping of Iraqi forces, Carter said in a House Armed Services Committee hearing on…
