Increasingly, we are confronting sophisticated organized networks across borders to incite violence within them. Meanwhile, Old ideological boundaries are now giving way to new operational alliances. The unified front between international Marxism and radical Islamic movements need not share the same ultimate vision to share the same immediate enemy of free and self-governing societies. That convergence should concern every government represented in this room. These terrorists understand an enduring truth. Societies are rarely subverted from afar until they have first been weakened from within. (39:53–40:09)
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Asserts that international Marxism and radical Islamic movements are united against free and self-governing societies.
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