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Roger Wicker: “Ultimately, it's not that we are doing nothing to counter ISIL, it is that there is no compelling reason to believe that…”

On the recordMay 20, 2015
Ultimately, it's not that we are doing nothing to counter ISIL, it is that there is no compelling reason to believe that anything we are currently doing will be sufficient to achieve our strategic objective.
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Roger Wicker
Republican · Mississippi

Editor's note · Context

Wicker critiques the effectiveness of current U.S. strategies against ISIL.

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