And, sure enough, the president did define the terrorism problem early on as a global one including state sponsors.

In the report last year, Iran was identified as "the most active state sponsor of terrorism."

Today, Sudan is still listed as a state sponsor of terrorism.

How is it possible that party loyalty has come to matter more than the effort to reject state sponsors of terrorism?

It also amended the act to include the Taliban as state sponsors of international terrorism.

The United States lists both countries as state sponsors of terrorism.

Again, it was the one state sponsor they had.

Sudan remains on the state sponsors of terrorism list.

But the reality is that the Syrians have been a state sponsor of terrorism.

Today, the primary threat to our security and freedom is from terrorists and their state sponsors.