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Rubio: Left Unchecked, ISIS Will Attack Americans
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| Sen. Marco Rubio Source: www.salon.com Credit: Reuters / Kevin Lamarque) |
(Newsmax) – The jihadist ISIS insurgents aren’t just hell-bent on dominating Iraq, their “expansionist ideology” will eventually lead to an attack on the United States, Sen. Marco Rubio says.
In his chilling assessment for Time.com Friday, the Florida Republican, a member of the Senate’s Foreign Relations and Select Intelligence Committees, says President Barack Obama was right to use military force to protect America’s diplomats and military personnel in Iraq.
“But this should not be our only goal,” he wrote.
“If we do not continue to take decisive action against ISIS now, it will be not just Iraqis or Syrians who continue to suffer, it will likely be Americans, as a result of a terrorist attack on the U.S. homeland or on our personnel overseas,” he warns.
“America was faced with the same choice President Clinton faced in the 1990s during the emergence of al Qaeda: take action now, or we will be forced to take action in the future.”
Rubio noted recent history shows “terrorist groups, once established, use safe havens to launch attacks on the United States and our interests.”
“We ignore this history at our own peril,” he warns.
The extremist ISIS, which emerged from al Qaeda, has been tormenting religious minorities in Iraq, even as they’ve seized bridges, dams and other infrastructure Iraqi towns and communities rely on.
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