Ashton Carter actually said...

Our strategy is to find, identify, and enable forces that can not only take territory, but hold territory.

Carter outlines the strategy to secure and maintain territory against ISIL.

11/30/2015

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I cannot emphasize enough the importance of that because that is mostly a matter for the European Union (EU) rather than the United States.

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