12/01/1997
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Still it was terrorism. It is not as if, if you were affected by an awful grotesque anti-Muslim video and your response to that is to attack...
if we are not helping the moderates, nonextremists in Syria, if we are sitting back now as Iraq becomes a sanctuary for al-Qaeda...
But we cannot leave. We did that once. We left the region after the Soviet withdrawal and we paid a major price for that.
I agree with Congresswoman Harman. This is a whole-of-Government approach, and it is largely nonkinetic.