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“There are two ways that you can go wrong in our long-term fight against jihadis. One would be to not acknowledge that terrorism and especially jihadi-motivated terrorism, comes from specific places in the world and is connected to specific ideologies. But another way to fall off a cliff and harm our long-term interests would be to imply that the U.S. is at war with Islam.”

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Benjamin E. Sasse

Benjamin E. Sasse is an American politician born on February 22, 1972. He currently serves as a U.S. Senator representing the state of Nebraska. Sasse is a member of the Republican Party and has extensive experience in academia and education, having served as the president of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. more

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“The real number of the US' obligations, unfunded obligations that we're passing on to our future generates is more like $70 trillion to $75 trillion. The vast majority of that is health entitlements - Medicare, Obamacare, Medicaid. There's also Social Security, interest on the debt. But fundamentally, health entitlements are the thing that will bankrupt our kids. We need to fix that for the long-term.”

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