GOP Rep. Mike Rogers: Foreign Policy ‘Has to Be More Than Hashtags and Selfies’

Outgoing Representative and Chair of the House Intelligence Committee Mike Rogers (R-MI) dismissed the #BringBackOurGirls hash tag on Face the Nation Sunday morning, telling host Bob Schieffer that foreign policy couldn’t rely on social media trends.

“This was a problem in 2010 when Boko Haram said they wanted to be part of al Qaeda,” Rogers said. “That’s where the problem started. And so this policy, this new ecosystem of terrorism that’s all the way from Nigeria, all the way across northern Africa to AQAP and Yemen, all the way over to pakistan and Afghanistan—You can’t base your policy on what’s trending on Twitter,” Rogers said. “It has to be more than hashtags and selfies. This is a huge and growing problem that’s really been relatively ignored.”

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Rogers added the plights of women in Chad, Afghanistan, and Syria. “This is going to continue to happen unless we have a robust, holistic approach to what is radicalism and extremism popping up all around the world,” he said.

Watch the clip below, via CBS News:

[h/t POLITICO]

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