I believe we need to defeat ISIL before they develop the operational capacity to perform a September 11-like attack.
We redoubled our efforts, frankly, to help move the Iraqi political process forward.
We must not repeat the mistakes of the past, given the nature of the threat we face.
So as President Obama described last week when he spoke directly to the American people, we do have a clear strategy to ...
It is a multiyear effort. The President has already said that.
We have been pushing for it for longer than that.
The bottom line is we will not be successful with a military campaign alone, and we know it.
We have been focused on ISIL since its inception as the successor to Al Qaeda of Iraq in 2013.
I think that is a huge mistake.
We are also--and I emphasize this--we are not starting from scratch.
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