11/16/2015
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"I very much disagree with the notion that it is desirable to keep U.S. forces from engaging in combat with the enemy if our objective is to defeat this enemy and maintain and establish a solid allianc..."
"While often characterized as a terrorist organization, ISIL/Daesh fights and behaves like an army."
"In your testimony, you call the suggestion of abandoning the central government in Baghdad and arming the Kurds and/or Sunni tribes directly as 'superficially appealing.'"
"The political situation in Iraq isn't just whatever the political situation in Iraq is. It is affected by what we do."