Politics, Power, and Preventive Action » You Might Have Missed: Whack-a-mole, Sugary Drinks, and Libya
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Hearing on the Strategy to Counter ISIL, Senate Armed Services Committee, July 7, 2015.
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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) : General Dempsey, would you agree that there’re more terrorist organizations with more safe havens, with more weapons, with more capability, with more men to strike the homeland than any time since 9/11?
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey : Yes .
Graham : Do you believe that ISIL is expanding in other countries as we speak?
Dempsey : Yes.
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Note that Sen. Graham did not follow up to ask why terrorist organizations were larger and more capable. U.S. officials are too vested in the country’s counterterrorism strategy—nearly unchanged over the past thirteen years—to recognize that it is failing.