Thornberry Talks Murder Of Marines On Fox

"You have to be able to speak clearly about the enemy..."

Washington, DC, July 17, 2015
Today, Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-TX), Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, spoke with Martha MacCallum on America's Newsroom about the attack on U.S. Marines in Chattanooga, TN. Below are several excerpts and the full interview.

Today, Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-TX), Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, spoke with Martha MacCallum on America's Newsroom about the attack on U.S. Marines in Chattanooga, TN. Below are several excerpts and the full interview.

"The U.S. military is a unique powerful force for good in the world and that will always make them a target for evil."

"...we're working on a provision on a bill we are putting the final touches on right now that would require the secretary to come up with the procedures to allow them to carry their weapons when they're on installations, recruiting stations is a bit more complicated but I think we need to look at that."

"...we're not doing very well at all in fighting the ideological war... As well as this physical war in the Middle East and around the world, there is an ideological war that's going on over the internet and other places and we're not really in that battle field."

"You have to be able to speak clearly about the enemy that you're facing. You have to be able to learn all you can about them, including listen to their communications. And you have to fight them and say...Islamic Extremism is wrong,"