Our goal is clear: to degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL through a comprehensive and sustained counterterrorism strategy.
Barack Obama: “Our goal is clear: to degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL through a comprehensive and sustained counterterrorism…”
On the recordSeptember 9, 2014
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presidency.ucsb.eduEditor's note · Context
Fact Sheet: Strategy to Counter the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)
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