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