Rep. Chip Roy

Obviously, Governor Abbott has declared each of those as terrorist organizations.

And we need to look at all of these organizations and see what their plan is.

What are they doing?

Because you've got groups that are saying specifically, as the Muslim Brotherhood has, that they have a plan to Islamify America.

And then carry forward that as a goal and a missional goal politically, ideologically.

That's not faith.

That's not religion that the First Amendment contemplates.

That is a specific political ideological effort to reshape and remake America and destroy our constitutional values in Western civilization.

If we don't recognize that, then look across the Atlantic, look at Europe, and that will be our future.

This is happening in real time, and we have to recognize it.

And we cannot flinch.

We cannot blink.

We've got to take this on squarely because it is a war raging for the soul of Western civilization.

Well, I haven't been able to study that.

I saw the news.

I need to make a few phone calls today, so I'm always careful about how I speak about things, so I always go talk to folks.

But, comma, however, I don't believe that we ought to be looking to engage in getting involved with war.

I supported the president and what happened with the bunker busters and dropping the bombs and taking out their advancement of nuclear power.

Right now, I think we need to be resolved and stand with the people of Iran who are pushing back on their tyrannical leadership.

um and and offered that kind of support in that way but you know we start engaging in war i've got concerns uh i need to go look at it talk to the experts i don't want to talk about what the president's doing without doing that but but it but look we need to be very very careful okay we've had over two decades of this engagement in conflict in the middle east there's a war raging right here in america