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Chris Smith: We must destroy ISIS militarily, if we can, but we cannot destroy with force of arms the religious ideology that…

On the recordSeptember 9, 2014
We must destroy ISIS militarily, if we can, but we cannot destroy with force of arms the religious ideology that sustains it.
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Chris Smith
Republican · New Jersey

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Calls for military action against ISIS while acknowledging the need to address underlying ideologies.

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