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wouldn't it be something if our American leadership... understood the Koran and knew all of the prophets in the Koran

Their mission is to support the priorities of the ambassador and the geographic combatant commander's (GCC) campaign plan against terrorist networks.

General Flynn's report directly addresses one of the fundamental discussions in our approach to Afghanistan.

It was not answered this morning. As a matter of fact, the subject of this hearing is CVE, and we started talking about deradicalization in the first panel.

The resources that we've talked about here are the resources of being able to get to young people to get them to understand what true Islam is, and not be diverted into some extremist form of violence.

Before we conclude, can you please give me your comments on the success, or lack thereof, of the Saudi rehabilitation program?

I just want to put on the record the role that Major General Stone played in Iraq.

My definition of victory has been, for the last 6 years, that this ideological war ends when nonviolent Muslims feel empowered and cause violent Islamists in their faith to be marginalized.

I think this is a terrible, terrible mistake, given the mission that the United States has right now.

It just drives me bats when I hear, 'Well, we have the resources to dig a well, but we don't have the resources to go over here and help with education.'

Some of my proudest moments are seeing Americans abroad doing their daily task at a local level...

What can we do, in Congress, to help you bridge the differences so that you're not 'largely' working together, but that you're more completely working together?

General, your troops find a much more acceptable audience in those villages, don't they, when the deradicalization through what we've just been talking about, about the true teachings of Islam, is taught?

You're saying that the U.S. Government really doesn't understand the concept of violent jihadists.