Timeline. This morning we consider the u. S. Response to the terrorist takeover in iraq. Nearly six months ago, the Committee Held a hearing. The title of that hearing was al qaedas resurgence in iraq, a threat to u. S. Interests. Then the administration testified at that hearing isis had become to shift resources from syria to iraq in early 2013. That it had tripled its Suicide Attack in that year and that it planned to challenge the Iraqi Government for control of western iraq and baghdad. Thats what we heard six months ago. The administration testified that it had become aware that isis had established armed camps, staging areas and Training Ground in iraqs Western Desert in the summer of 2013 and that isis leader had again threatened to attack the United States of america. The administration told us that isis must be, in their words, constantly pressured and their safe havens destroyed and that its objective was to ensure that isis could never again gain safe haven in western iraq.
Theres a lot of questions which i think will catch up on us as a nation how we use american forces. Im not going to go beyond that. Theres a lot of talk about the state. Theres a lot in my head. Im trying to use my academic side. I dont know. Because of the state in the middle east is changing fundamentally, we, when i say we i dont mean the u. S. Alone. Europeans, the west, the mind looks at everything as a state, as a holy grail that you cant touch it, that everything works in that concept. Our International System is based on a conceptual state that we have taken from whether it is from the treaty of that is shifting under our noses fundamentally. Im not saying because of the Islamic State or whatever they want to call it. That is our manifestation. Even the states we look at, is afghanistan a state. I mean, i can go on to a lot of. These states, we still treat them with attributes we either believe that exist or at least thats the only norm we work through. I think one way to look
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