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Yeah. Absolutely. Its far from it. And we all collectively laid out some details to support that. Do you see any way to defeat isil in syria without a substantial arab army involved . I dont know how you get there. I mean obviously, if we deployed tens of thousands of troops ourselves we could defeat isis in syria. I dont think anybody here would recommend such an event. I think the people who have vested interest there should be involved and i think they would get involved. I mean, you know that they said as much, but we have to do something to change the momentum of the assad regime. Dr. Kagan . Is it fair to say that no arab army is going into syria unless part of the one of the objectives is to take assad down . Absolutely senator, thats going to be a precondition for because theyre not going to just fight isil and leave assad in power therefore giving the place to syria, is that correct . On the contrary i mean to iran. On the contrary. What were seeing is increasing levels of sup
Effective in our goals. I also have concerns about the current effectiveness of intergovernmental cooperation to undermine the flow of money to terrorists. I look forward to hearing from the witnesses on these issues. Continuing the Task Force Effort to Counter Terrorist financing. Thank you, and i yield back. Chair recognizes the Ranking Member of the full committee, ms. Waters, for one minute. Thank you very much, mr. Chairman. I applaud the bipartisan efforts surrounding this task force and believe it will serve us well as we work to guard against key threats to our National Security. Today the task force will explore dangerous new trend the growing convergence of terrorism and crime while terrorist organizations motivated by ideology and criminal enterprise is driven generally by greed have been thought to operate independent from one another. The testimony from the Witnesses Today makes it clear that this is no longer the norm. Furthermore, in an age of globalization, the growing