RACHEL MADDOW: Do you see a meaningful connection between the military fight against ISIS on the ground in Iraq and Syria and the international threat posed by ISIS both through propaganda, perhaps through directly organizing foreign attacks and inspiring the kind of fighters who we saw strike last week in France? CHRIS MURPHY: I clearly think that you're seeing a flow of foreign fighters back and forth into Syria and Iraq that's presenting real problems and threats to our allies in Europe and potentially here to the United States. But I think it is important just to recognize that the individuals who carried out these attacks in Paris were originally radicalized not by ISIS but in coordination against the United States' invasion and occupation of Iraq. That's what initially brought them into this fight, and it's worth repeating that those who would call for another insertion of U.S. ground troops to fight ISIS would be essentially repeating the very mistake that radicalized thousands of Muslims all across country during our ten-year occupation of that country. So I certainly think that ISIS poses a threat to the United States and to our allies, but we're living with a decade-long mistake in Iraq that radicalized thousands already no matter whether or not ISIS was present in that region. "THIS VIDEO IS FAIR USE UNDER U.S. COPYRIGHT LAW BECAUSE IT IS (1) NON-COMMERCIAL, (2) TRANSFORMATIVE IN NATURE, (3) USES NO MORE OF THE ORIGINAL WORK THAN NECESSARY FOR THE VIDEO'S PURPOSE, AND (4) DOES NOT COMPETE WITH THE ORIGINAL WORK AND COULD HAVE NO NEGATIVE AFFECT ON ITS MARKET."
Dem Sen. Chris Murphy Blames Bush for Radicalization of Hebdo Terrorists
RACHEL MADDOW: Do you see a meaningful connection between the military fight against ISIS on the ground in Iraq and Syria and the international threat posed by ISIS both through propaganda, perhaps through directly organizing foreign attacks and inspiring the kind of fighters who we saw strike last week in France? CHRIS MURPHY: I clearly think that you're seeing a flow of foreign fighters back and forth into Syria and Iraq that's presenting real problems and threats to our allies in Europe and potentially here to the United States. But I think it is important just to recognize that the individuals who carried out these attacks in Paris were originally radicalized not by ISIS but in coordination against the United States' invasion and occupation of Iraq. That's what initially brought them into this fight, and it's worth repeating that those who would call for another insertion of U.S. ground troops to fight ISIS would be essentially repeating the very mistake that radicalized thousands of Muslims all across country during our ten-year occupation of that country. So I certainly think that ISIS poses a threat to the United States and to our allies, but we're living with a decade-long mistake in Iraq that radicalized thousands already no matter whether or not ISIS was present in that region. "THIS VIDEO IS FAIR USE UNDER U.S. COPYRIGHT LAW BECAUSE IT IS (1) NON-COMMERCIAL, (2) TRANSFORMATIVE IN NATURE, (3) USES NO MORE OF THE ORIGINAL WORK THAN NECESSARY FOR THE VIDEO'S PURPOSE, AND (4) DOES NOT COMPETE WITH THE ORIGINAL WORK AND COULD HAVE NO NEGATIVE AFFECT ON ITS MARKET."
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