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Marco Rubio: “For far too long, however, our counterterrorism doctrine has…”

Featuring: Marco Rubio, Republican | Secretary of State, United States | National

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FULL SPEECHES: US Sec. Rubio, Miller & Scott Speak on Terrorism, Security & Global Cooperation |AC1E

Published | Video Starts at 03:52

But this threat has been severely diminished. The world looks very different today because of it. For far too long, however, our counterterrorism doctrine has had a blind spot when it comes to extremist violence from the political left. Even today, the very idea that far left terrorism could be a serious threat is treated as a right wing fever dream, or worse, as a dangerous fascist conspiracy. (03:52–03:58)

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Asserts that counterterrorism doctrine has overlooked left-wing extremist violence.

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