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Europe and the United States are better off extending a helping hand to those who know best rather than dictating to them an unfamiliar future.
Pete Hoekstra / Former United States Representative
Better Off
Extending
Helping Hand
Unfamiliar
Best Future Better
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America has historically met the challenges to its national security with decisive actions that defeated or, at a minimum, contained the threat.
Pete Hoekstra / Former United States Representative
Defeated
Minimum
National Security
Actions
Contained
Decisive
Historically
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I served 10 years on the U.S. House Intelligence Committee, and I had the distinct privilege of meeting with real U.S. spies throughout the globe.
Pete Hoekstra / Former United States Representative
Committee
Distinct
Meeting
Served
Spies
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America, at its core, is a country of strong and resilient people who are prepared to confront the challenges posed by those who seek to do us harm.
Pete Hoekstra / Former United States Representative
Harm
Resilient
Confront
Seek
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Americans must step back and realize that an effective foreign policy is very difficult to devise, and we must present a united front to make it work.
Pete Hoekstra / Former United States Representative
Foreign Policy
Devise
Effective
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Foreign policy is painstakingly difficult, and if there is to be anything gained from the experience in Libya, it is how not to conduct world affairs.
Pete Hoekstra / Former United States Representative
Foreign Policy
Libya
World Affairs
Affairs
Conduct
Gained
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan harbor incredible promise for America once they forge an effective partnership.
Pete Hoekstra / Former United States Representative
Partnership
Presidential
Promise
Donald
Donald Trump
Effective
Nominee
Forge
Harbor
Paul
Paul Ryan
Speaker
Ryan
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Islamists and their sympathizers hate us, and they will not stop hating us until we convert to ancient Islam. There is no middle ground or accommodation.
Pete Hoekstra / Former United States Representative
Ancient
Islam
Islamists
Middle Ground
Accommodation
Convert
Hating
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The overall feckless strategy against ISIS in Syria and Iraq enabled the Islamist organization to expand its domain and drive out more religious minorities.
Pete Hoekstra / Former United States Representative
Domain
Minorities
Strategy
Syria
Expand
Overall
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The answer as to why ISIS gained power and influence, and why stability in the Middle East has disastrously deteriorated, does not require extensive analysis.
Pete Hoekstra / Former United States Representative
Analysis
Middle East
Stability
Deteriorated
Extensive
Gained
Require
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Belonging to the Gang of Eight carries massive responsibility in representing all 435 members of the legislature in very sensitive national security exercises.
Pete Hoekstra / Former United States Representative
Belonging
Gang
Legislature
Massive
National Security
Representing
Sensitive
Carries
Exercises
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ISIS has stated that it intends to infiltrate the hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees fleeing the barbaric ISIS terrorists, using their families as cover.
Pete Hoekstra / Former United States Representative
Barbaric
Fleeing
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Thousands
Infiltrate
Refugees
Stated
Syrian
Terrorists
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The U.S. should prohibit perpetrators and supporters of Islamist brutality from entering the country while embracing advocates for religious freedom. End of story.
Pete Hoekstra / Former United States Representative
Entering
Religious Freedom
Advocate
Embracing
Prohibit
Supporters
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Just as sports teams recognize the potentially game-changing benefit of calling time-outs, failing to do so in matters of warfare is a surefire way to continue losing.
Pete Hoekstra / Former United States Representative
Failing
Warfare
Benefit
Potentially
Teams
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There are no consequences for Snowden breaking the law in Snowden's World. It's where his massively inflated ego dictates the rules and determines which he will follow.
Pete Hoekstra / Former United States Representative
Snowden
Breaking
Determines
Dictates
Inflated
Massively
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Former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi and the radical Islamist mullahs ruling Iran share many similarities, but honesty and negotiating in good faith are not among them.
Pete Hoekstra / Former United States Representative
Dictator
Former
Good Faith
Honesty
Iran
Negotiating
Ruling
Similarities
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The unregulated migration of hundreds of thousands of refugees from terrorist safe havens in Syria, Iraq, and Libya has created a very difficult threat environment for Europe.
Pete Hoekstra / Former United States Representative
Libya
Migration
Syria
Terrorist
Haven
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Thousands
Refugees
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The U.S. faces a very dangerous sprint by outlaws to gather the deadliest weapons and technology on the planet, something we always thought possible but hoped would never occur.
Pete Hoekstra / Former United States Representative
Faces
Sprint
Weapons
Deadliest
Gather
Hoped
Occur
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We need to recognize the reality of the threat from radical Islam: that it will be an enduring conflict, that there are no easy decisions, and that mistakes have and will be made.
Pete Hoekstra / Former United States Representative
Conflict
Islam
Radical Islam
Enduring
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Libya became a rat's nest of extremism after NATO helped depose dictator Moammar Gadhafi, and it now exports weapons, jihadists, and ideology to Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
Pete Hoekstra / Former United States Representative
Dictator
East
Europe
Ideology
Libya
Middle
Middle East
Nato
Weapons
Africa
Became
Exports
Helped
Nest
Rat
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America's bipartisan strategy for years has been to deny jihadists with sanctuaries anywhere in the world from where they can plan, prepare, and train for attacks against the West.
Pete Hoekstra / Former United States Representative
Bipartisan
Deny
Strategy
Attacks
Prepare
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The U.S. might have diminished al-Qaeda's capabilities in the border region of Pakistan and Afghanistan, but it has not diminished the threat from radical Islamist terrorists as a whole.
Pete Hoekstra / Former United States Representative
Al Qaeda
Pakistan
Border
Capabilities
Diminished
Region
Terrorists
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From my experience as Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, if a congressperson is identified as a potential target by a foreign intelligence service, that individual is notified.
Pete Hoekstra / Former United States Representative
Target
Committee
Identified
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A real possibility exists that we will be forced to confront, contain, and ultimately defeat radicalism and al-Qaeda alone, or at least with far fewer allies in the region than we had before.
Pete Hoekstra / Former United States Representative
Al Qaeda
Allies
Defeat
Fewer
Possibility
Confront
Contain
Exists
Forced
Region
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Illicit weapons have always been available to those who can afford them, but they have not generally been the latest state-of-the-art equipment, which requires experience and expertise to use.
Pete Hoekstra / Former United States Representative
Available
Equipment
Expertise
Weapons
Afford
Latest
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Islamic fundamentalists in dark areas of Libya rifled through leftover stockpiles of conventional, chemical, and biological munitions from Muammar Gaddafi's rule. Who knows where they are now?
Pete Hoekstra / Former United States Representative
Conventional
Gaddafi
Islamic
Libya
Biological
Chemical
Fundamentalists
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The U.S. must remember - as the Gadhafi loyalists have and Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Bangladesh are now realizing - that it cannot get into bed with groups affiliated with the jihadist movement.
Pete Hoekstra / Former United States Representative
Arabia
Bangladesh
Realizing
Saudi Arabia
Affiliated
Saudi
Turkey
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Any customer of government - whether it's with education, taxes, housing, or health care - understands the frustrations when they have a bad experience. They're stuck and can't go anywhere else.
Pete Hoekstra / Former United States Representative
Health Care
Housing
Stuck
Anywhere Else
Customer
Frustrations
Understands
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Asking presidential candidates whether they support or would change past foreign policy decisions is the most common line of questioning among members of the media. It's also the most pointless.
Pete Hoekstra / Former United States Representative
Candidates
Foreign Policy
Members
Pointless
Presidential
Questioning
Decisions
Among
Policy Decisions
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Yes, Gaddafi was a ruthless dictator and supporter of terrorism during his 40-year reign in Libya, but he had become an ally of the United States in the fight against radical jihadism after 9/11.
Pete Hoekstra / Former United States Representative
Dictator
Gaddafi
Libya
Reign
Ruthless
Supporter
Terrorism
Fight Terrorism Against
Ally
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The world has devolved into a much more hardened and lethal place since that devastating September morning when Islamists assassinated nearly 3,000 Americans in the worst terror attack on U.S. soil.
Pete Hoekstra / Former United States Representative
Hardened
Islamists
September
Soil
Terror
Attack
Nearly
Devastating
Lethal
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Succeeding against an army of strawmen might feel good as a speech, but in reality, the world is filled with extraordinarily difficult challenges and very real consequences as a result of how we face them.
Pete Hoekstra / Former United States Representative
Army
Feel Good
Filled
Good Reality World
Extraordinarily
Succeeding
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The Eurozone allows for the largely unimpeded movement of people, goods, services, and capital across borders. It has also resulted in unprecedented cooperation on crime, security, and finance among its members.
Pete Hoekstra / Former United States Representative
Finance
Borders
Cooperation
Eurozone
Goods
Unprecedented
Capital
Largely
Resulted
Services
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Nobody will ever agree with everything everyone says, especially once an issue or speaker becomes politically charged. But as tolerant and civilized Americans, we should at least have the decency to hear them out.
Pete Hoekstra / Former United States Representative
Civilized
Decency
Charged
Speaker
Tolerant
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The policies and laws executed by the grand mufti in Libya, the long-term agenda in the short-lived Morsi government in Egypt, and by ISIS in its ideal Islamist Ummah are incompatible with the Constitution, period.
Pete Hoekstra / Former United States Representative
Egypt
Libya
Long Term
Short Lived
Period
Executed
Grand
Ideal
Incompatible
Policies
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Libya stood as a source of stability in volatile northern Africa in 2011. The administration turned it into a failed state that exposed southern Europe to refugees and terrorist elements, all of which Gadhafi had warned about.
Pete Hoekstra / Former United States Representative
Administration
Elements
Exposed
Libya
Stability
Terrorist
Failed
Northern
Refugees
Stood
Volatile
Warned
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While the primary focus continues to be on religious minorities - the Christian religious minorities and the Jewish community - ISIS will also go after people who interpret and believe the Muslim faith differently than they do.
Pete Hoekstra / Former United States Representative
Jewish Community
Minorities
Interpret
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Where the West has intervened in African domestic affairs, such as it did in Libya 2011, the country became a cradle of extremism that exports weapons, jihadists, and ideology to the rest of Africa, the Middle East, and Europe.
Pete Hoekstra / Former United States Representative
Cradle
Ideology
Libya
Middle East
Weapons
Affairs
African
Domestic
Exports
Intervened
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When I came to Congress in 1993, the traditional idea that all politics stopped at the water's edge was alive and well. Americans had been unified for the previous four decades against the threat from the former Soviet Union and communism.
Pete Hoekstra / Former United States Representative
Communism
Decades
Former
Soviet
Soviet Union
Unified
Edge
Previous
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Gingrich, Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, and Clinton passed legislation because they understood and appreciated the difficult political process. They fought for their principles yet recognized the need for compromise to get anything done.
Pete Hoekstra / Former United States Representative
Appreciated
Clinton
Compromise
Legislation
Principles
Senate
Fought
Gingrich
Passed
Political Process
Recognized
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The Obama administration notoriously refuses to acknowledge that Islamists commit Islamist terror, so it logically follows that a Christian victim of Islamist violence should not address the issue lest it challenge accepted political orthodoxy.
Pete Hoekstra / Former United States Representative
Accepted
Acknowledge
Administration
Commit
Islamists
Orthodoxy
Terror
Follows
Lest
Logically
Obama Administration
Refuses
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Hard work, years of sacrifice, and dedication are necessary to succeed in the real world. Snowden's most notable accomplishment was lying about his military service, his experience, and education to procure a job with the NSA in the first place.
Pete Hoekstra / Former United States Representative
Education
Experience
Work
Accomplishment
Dedication
Hard
Hard Work
Lying
Military
Military Service
Notable
Nsa
Real
Real World
Sacrifice
Snowden
Succeed
World
Years
Most
Work Experience Hard Work
Education Work Hard Work
Job
Education Work Experience
First
First Place
His
Place
Necessary
Procure
Service
The Real World
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The forces that rescued Americans on Sept. 11, 2012, were not the U.S. military. They were not the militias that overthrew Gadhafi. They were Gadhafi devotees who were loyal to him and to the U.S. government with whom their leader reached a 'deal.'
Pete Hoekstra / Former United States Representative
Loyal
Reached
Rescued
Sept
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No president can amend the past, and the public is tired of candidates who simply point fingers instead of offering their own solutions. They want a leader who will describe the threats as they are and rally the country behind a strategy to defeat them.
Pete Hoekstra / Former United States Representative
Candidates
Defeat
Fingers
Offering
Solutions
Strategy
Amend
Describe
Rally
Threats
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I'm not OK with clergy, students, and those of different opinions lying and expressing hateful speech in the name of love, but again, it is their constitutional right. I'm not OK with their conduct, but in America we tolerate it, as obnoxious and spiteful as it may be.
Pete Hoekstra / Former United States Representative
Clergy
Different Opinions
Hateful
Lying
Obnoxious
Spiteful
Tolerate
Conduct
Constitutional
Constitutional Right
Expressing
Opinions
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Gadhafi was a monster who ruled his country for 42 years with an iron fist and became an international pariah as a result. However, he found religion once he recognized his perilous position when the U.S. adopted an uncompromising response to international terrorism following 9/11.
Pete Hoekstra / Former United States Representative
Adopted
Following
International
International Terrorism
Iron
Position
Response
Terrorism
Uncompromising
Fist
However
Monster
Perilous
Recognized
Result
Ruled
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The media should probe and challenge candidates to help voters understand their views on foreign policy. Questions should include, 'What lessons have you learned from past foreign policy decisions? How will they shape your vision as commander in chief? What is America's role in the world?'
Pete Hoekstra / Former United States Representative
Candidates
Foreign Policy
Lessons
Views
Voters
Chief
Commander
Include
Probe
Policy Decisions
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Both Presidents George Bush and Barack Obama pursued policies of regime change after 9/11 - with Bush removing al-Qaida's safe haven in Afghanistan and the sadistic anti-American dictator Saddam Hussein in Iraq - but Obama took it a step further and disregarded regional stability as a guiding factor for U.S. policy.
Pete Hoekstra / Former United States Representative
Anti-american
Barack
Dictator
Disregarded
Hussein
Pursued
Saddam
Stability
Barack Obama
Factor
Further
George Bush
Guiding
Haven
Policies
Presidents
Regime
Removing
Saddam Hussein
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Should President Clinton have killed Osama bin Laden when he had the opportunity in 1990s? Should President Bush have sent the U.S. military into Iraq to depose Saddam Hussein in 2003? Should President Obama have withdrawn all troops from Iraq in 2011? Such questions provide no real insight into future considerations.
Pete Hoekstra / Former United States Representative
Clinton
Hussein
Insight
President Bush
President Clinton
Saddam
Troops
Bin
Considerations
Saddam Hussein
Withdrawn
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Radical jihadists hate Americans for who we are. They cannot be managed. They cannot be trusted. Engaging them is a tragic fool's errand. We need to realize that they are at war with us and that we cannot control their motivations. We instead need to confront them, contain them, and ultimately defeat them before they defeat us.
Pete Hoekstra / Former United States Representative
Defeat
Engaging
Fool
Tragic
Trusted
Confront
Contain
Errand
Motivations
We Cannot
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