I hope you will feel that responsibility, as well.
We heard from the expert panel that preceded you how important it is that Iraqi politics be the primary effort.
How do we know that now that ISIS is about defeated there won't be an ISIS 2.0, just as ISIS in many ways is Al Qaeda in Iraq 2.0?
I can't tell you how painful it is as an Iraq war veteran now sitting on this committee to see us fighting and refighting so many of the sam...
That is what I am most worried about, is that by giving a blank check, we could enable exactly the kinds of dysfunction that created 2014 in...
It is hard, I think, to see how if Iran is fundamentally opposed to our interests in building an Iraqi state, we are going to make this work...
We must hear from this administration how this time will be different.
Without sufficient local security arrangements, we cannot expect for Iraq to be stabilized, for civilians to return to normalcy.
I echo Chairwoman Hartzler's frustration at securing appropriate administration witnesses to answer the full gamut of questions.
It is critical that we do all we can here in Congress to ensure a stable Iraq after ISIL is defeated.
You would think that we would learn from mistakes like that, and yet, a few years later, we see this happening again when it is completely w...