[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 168 (Monday, November 16, 2015)]
[House]
[Page H8157]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 CONTAINMENT OF ISIS IS NOT A STRATEGY

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Madam Speaker, Friday morning President Obama 
boastfully declared to the world that ISIS was contained.
  Hours later, Paris was burning. ISIS fighters unleashed coordinated 
attacks all over the City of Lights, murdering 130 people and injuring 
hundreds of others. This, just weeks after ISIS blew up an airplane, 
killing over 200 people.
  The President is wrong. ISIS is not contained. ISIS' homicidal 
aggression has spread from the Middle East to the sleeping West. This 
morning, the radical killers released a video threatening an attack on 
Washington, D.C.
  Shall we dither until this Capital is bombed? I think not. This is 
our fight, but it is not our fight alone.
  We should immediately invoke article 5 of the NATO agreement. This 
says an attack on one NATO nation--such as France is an attack on all 
NATO nations. This paves the way for a truly joint and international 
response to ISIS. The U.S. invoked this provision after the 9/11 
attack.
  All 28 NATO nations need to join the war against our common enemy 
because containment is not a strategy.
  And that is just the way it is.

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