We need to make sure these Islamic terrorist organizations don't become mainstream. We're fighting an ideology as much as a group of radical terrorists.
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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.
We need to eradicate these terrorist groups, wherever they are. If we failed to do it, we are just waiting for the next.
ISIL is inspiring groups that already exist to rebrand themselves, but in rebranding themselves into a more radical ideology. That's what makes it dangerous.
We are in a struggle against the forces of radical Islam and terror, which must be defeated for our children and our grandchildren.
These so-called extremists in Pakistan should be brought into the mainstream; if you marginalize them, you radicalize them.
Nor should we exclude the possibility that Islamic terrorism may begin to make common cause with Western political extremists of the far Left and far Right.
There are too many people sympathetic to radical Islam. We should be looking at them more carefully and finding out how we can infiltrate them.
The fact to the matter is, we never developed a comprehensive strategy to deal with radical Islam. And the 9/11 commission said one of the things we must do is develop a global alliance to combat it.
We know that we can defeat Islamist terrorism without violating our ideals; indeed, we must. These ideals, these American ideals.
We can't be afraid to call the enemy what it is: Radical Islamic terrorism.