Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey told Senate appropriators that the United States has no choice but to fund President Obama's new $5 billion overseas contingency operations request to develop counterterrorism partnerships in Africa because the nation badly needs regional allies to address militant extremism. "The issue of violent extremist organizations, most of whom are inspired by radical religion, is going to be with us for another, in my judgment, 25 to 30 years," he told...
