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And we worked under u.n. mandate with a coalition of folks in order to try to avert a big humanitarian catastrophe that would not have been good for us. those that argue that we should have left gadhafi in there seem to forget he lost legitimacy and control of his country and we could have had syria in libya now. the problem with libya was the fact there was a failure on the part of the entire international community and i think the united states has some accountability for not moving swiftly en...

Cooperated with dictators who are unsavory characters but they were helpful in stopping and defeating soviet communism. the problem with our foreign policy with barack obama and hillary clinton and, unfortunately, with too many washington republicans is they take their eye off the ball. that they stop focusing on the need to defeat radical islamic terrorism, whether its isis, whether its al qaeda, boko haram, al nusra. what we end up doing is toppling governments in the middle east and enabling ...

Agree that assads bloody crack down on the syrian people created the space for isis to rise. they say regime change would only allow the terror group to grow further. >> welcome these republican candidates -- >> reporter: making their pitch to be the next commander in chief the republican candidates show cased their strategy to defeat isis. one by one they argued syrian president assad, long viewed as the cause for isis growth is now key to its defeat. >> we have to do one thing at a time. we ca...

Cooperated with dictators who are unsavory characters but they were helpful in stopping and defeating soviet communism. the problem with our foreign policy with barack obama and hillary clinton and, unfortunately, with too many washington republicans is they take their eye off the ball. that they stop focusing on the need to defeat radical islamic terrorism, whether its isis, whether its al qaeda, boko haram, al nusra. what we end up doing is toppling governments in the middle east and enabling ...

Troops to libya to defeat isis there? >> we need to have a military strategy regarding libya. theyve taken over gadhafis home town. theres about 2,000 of them. here is what i learned in my 36 visits. you cant deter these guys. they are ready to die. bring on the virgins. dying is first place in their world. we have to work with others over time to destroy the ideology and offer a hopeful life to compete with the glorious death. they dont want to live in the 11th century. yes, you have to destroy...

Spawn isis with either the premature withdrawal from iraq for a lot of reasons and also the collapse of gadhafi in libya to give isis a base in a failed state. >> well, its really to just do a one-liner around this. but if you really get into the policy, you understand that its more complicated than that. for example, one of the reasons isis grew was because assad was murdering innocent sunnis in his own country in record numbers. tens of thousands of his citizens were sunnis. as a result, that ...

Toppling assad in syria, would we be safer or less safe? if you were to topple assad two years ago or now, it allows isis to grow stronger. the same with gadhafi, when clinton, rubio, wanted to topple gadhafi, it created chaos. isis now pledges allegiance a third of libya pledges allegiance to isis. there should be a debate whether or not were better with regime change or without. >> another issue you disagree with competitors on stage has to do with surveillance and the national security state ...

Its a political conundrum. she shies away from the policies she helped to make while in the administration. >> shes trying to define herself independently also saying she and barack obama are two peas in a pod. even though politicians often have it both ways, they cant do it both cases. this is one. >> reporter: clinton could be hurt be swing votered. clinton, for xamping, supported regime change in iraq and libya. critics now argue power vacuums left by saddam hussein and gadhafi are filled wit...

Gadhafi was removed to help the people in libya, to help themselves establish a firm government, not a nation-building, but a government that can provide basic services. >> some argue that was the mistake in iraq. >> well, there were a lot of mistakes in iraq. [ all speak at once ] >> -- was clearly problematic. whats interesting, a lot of the former baath party officials and army generals are providing the military guidance and expertise to isis today. if you look back at japan, mcarthur had to...

The outcome? groups like isis, al qaeda, growing stronger, taking over mother territory. same thing occurred in libya, the united states overthrew gadhafi. now we have isis with headquarter theres in libya and continuing to look to expand. the very same thing will happen in syria if the united states is successful in its focus and its objective of overthrowing the syrian government of asad, isis will walk in the front door, take over syria and pose the greater threat to the region and increase h...