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Joe Lieberman: “The war against terrorism, Islamist terrorism, is a war of ideas and values, because underneath all these brutal acts…”

On the recordSeptember 21, 2010
The war against terrorism, Islamist terrorism, is a war of ideas and values, because underneath all these brutal acts, there is an ideology, an extreme theology that is totally inconsistent with our values.
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Joe Lieberman
Independent · Connecticut

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Lieberman emphasizes the ideological battle in the fight against Islamist terrorism.

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