So, you know, when you decide whether something's justified or not and whether something can be defeated or not, how hard is it? Is it even possible? To what degree is it possible to defeat terrorism? The Obama administration was failing at [defeating terrorist ideology] because they were afraid of being labeled Islamophobes. that they refused to accurately identify the ideology driving these terrorist groups and instead said, oh, we are countering violent extremism was the term that the Obama administration started to use and was coined and kind of mandated across the US Government. (21:52–22:14)
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Asserts that the Obama administration failed to address terrorist ideology due to fear of being labeled Islamophobic.
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