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Jane Harman on Face the Nation

"Our counter narrative against ISIL is what is going to win the day. If we don't win the argument, we, the coalition of forty, are never going to prevail against the extremists." says Jane Harman.

Jane Harman was featured as a panelist on Face the Nation on Sunday to talk about the U.S. response to ISIL and President Obama’s foreign policy. Also on the panel were Senator Joe Lieberman, former CIA Deputy Director Mike Morell, and Bob Kagan of Brookings.

She comments that, "Our counter narrative against ISIL is what is going to win the day. The pragmatic Sunnis, who for the moment are supporting ISIL, are doing that because there is no real alternative; maybe the new government in Iraq will be that alternative, maybe something in Syria will be that alternative, but we got to woo those folks back. If we don't win the argument, we, the coalition of forty, are never going to prevail against the extremists."

The original video was published by CBSNEWS' Face the Nation. 
 

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Jane Harman

Distinguished Fellow and President Emerita, Wilson Center

Jane Harman, Distinguished Fellow and President Emerita, Wilson Center, is an internationally recognized authority on U.S. and global security issues, foreign relations and lawmaking. A native of Los Angeles and a public-school graduate, she went on to become a nine-term member of Congress, serving decades on the major security committees in the House of Representatives. Drawing upon a career that has included service as President Carter’s Secretary of the Cabinet and hundreds of diplomatic missions to foreign countries, Harman holds posts on nearly a dozen governmental and non-governmental advisory boards and commissions.

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