House Armed Services chair Mac Thornberry on national security
In this photo released by the U.S. Navy, the guided-missile cruiser USS Philippine Sea launches a Tomahawk cruise missile at Islamic State group positions in Syria as seen from the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush in the Arabian Gulf on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014. Syria said Tuesday that Washington informed President Bashar Assad's government of imminent U.S. airstrikes against the Islamic State group, hours before an American-led military coalition pounded the extremists' strongholds across northern and eastern Syria.
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The Republican chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Mac Thornberry, says the next commander in chief is going to "inherit a whale of a mess." He wants the world to know that nobody can take the place of the USA as a leader for good in the world. He spoke about our national security challenges, on January 14th at the National Press Club in Washington.
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