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The historic lesson is that it was a strategic failure to go into Iraq. History will not be and should not be kind with that decision.
Michael T. Flynn
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I think what - I think what the American people is looking for is they are looking for moral and intellectual courage and clarity, and not a sense of passivity or confusion.
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We should quit using phrases like 'turning points' and 'tipping points.' There's been multiple turning points, multiple tipping points.
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What we need to do is we need to come to grips with this cancerous form of the Islamic religion that is breaking down the Arab world order, and that is very clear.
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We are in a global war with a radical and violent form of the Islamic religion, and it is irresponsible and dangerous to deny it.
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I think ISIS is achieving the objectives that they have set out to achieve. I think that they feel probably very emboldened. They feel pretty good. Their resiliency is extraordinary.
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I do believe - I very strongly believe that the Arab nations would be willing to put together an Arab NATO-like structure.
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I believe our inability to achieve victory stems mainly from having lost sight as a nation of what it means to win.
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Despite what you hear in the news from the Obama administration and the military, our strategy of conducting infrequent airstrikes and re-taking pockets of Iraq and Syria terrain will only help us achieve short-lived tactical victories.
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Given its Internet sophistication and the attraction the group has with vast numbers of potential recruits from among disaffected populations around the globe, ISIS has the realistic potential to eventually swell its ranks of jihadists waging a 'holy war' to hundreds of thousands in both the western and eastern hemispheres.
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Put simply, we are still at war with radical Islamic groups and an ideological movement that can't be ignored nor wished away.
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We have to face the fact that ISIS and its army of like-minded jihadists are determined to win that war and believe they are on the path to victory. They may well be right.
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