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It matters or how are we going to create a strategy to unify the world against isis. hes not taking it to the next level. >> on capitol hill, defense secretary ash carter defended the obama administrations isis strategy. carter told the senate armed services committee that the u.s. is prepared to send more personnel and attack helicopters to assist iraqi military forces. but that sending a significant american ground force to fight isis would be a mistake. >> well, we certainly have the capabili...

Strategic approach we have adopted to drive isil from syrian and iraqi territory. including the introduction of a significant foreign ground force. hypothetically international. but including u.s. forces. while we have the capability to furnish a u.s. component to such a ground force, we have not recommended this course of action. by seeming to americanize the conflicts in iraq and syria, we could well turn those fighting isil or those inclined to resist their rule into fighting us instead. >> j...

48 college kids to volunteer and turn people out. they talk about they believe the senator will get up to 99 counties before the caucus. rubios team believes it will be able to push over the next 50 or 60 days to turn people out. theyre planning to do a lot of ad buys. theyll have rubio on tv quite a bit, folks in iowa will see him a lot on their televisions and theyll see him on the ground as he expects to roll out more endorsements. theyre modelling this over joanie ernsts campaign. youll brin...

Ground. it would kind of justify their jihad. they would love to have them there in the region. >> well we shouldnt let our strategy be driven by what a bunch of millennialists want. they have this idea, that the apocalypse is coming. they know exactly where its going to happen. its a small town. they name their online magazine after it. if they want to have the apocalyptic battle against the west and the russians and the turks all at once, we ought to give it to them. because they will be defea...

Be coming in the window. chairman dunford and i recognize that in principle, there are alternatives to the strategic approach we have adopted to drive isil from syrian and iraqi territory, including the introduction of a significant foreign ground force. hypothetically, international, but including u.s. forces. even in the absence of capable motivated local ground forces, while we certainly have the capability to furnish a u.s. component to such a ground force, we have not recommended this cours...

Understand the logic in your statement about, said, well, certainly have the capability to furnish a u.s. component in such a ground force, that we have not recommended because it would be significant undertaking. i agree. we would have to do it largely by ourself. i do not agree. it would be ceding other comparative advantage? we would be, and meaning, in medium term it would seem to americanize the conflicts, somehow does anybody really believe that if the united states struck back against peo...

Forces on the ground advising local groups that run counter to isis. but there is some very illuminating testimony here today. number one, carter said that you cannot go into this area with an american ground force thats large because it would americanize the fight and give isis what it wants, the opportunity to fight americans on their "holy land." john mccain pushed back on him at that, asked him if he felt that isis was contained, quoting the president who said that a few weeks before the par...

Rules of engagement. we need to equip our allies with what they have been asking us for for years now years. jordan its not just the kurds who have been asking us for arms, way too little too late from this president. the jordanians have been asking us for bombs and material for at least a year and a half. we havent provided it. i will. egyptians have asked us to share intelligence. jordanians kuwaits egyptians, the saudis, elm kurds, i have been to this region. i know the leaders of many of the...

The war of ideas. get on top of that. work with people like president al sisi of egypt as an ally in this war and work to find a way to go back at these extremists with -- and war of ideas. third, we have to take back the terrain. president obama should have said were going to double down and try to bring back gav nance to those ungoverned spaces. lawrence, ungov verbed spaces are the magnet for this sort of thing so we have to do all three of those things. i wish the president would have been c...

Means we have to change the rules of engagement. we need to equip our allies with what they have been asking us for for years now, years. jordan, its not just the kurds who have been asking us for arms, way too little too late from this president. the jordanians have been asking us for bombs and material for at least a year and a half. we havent provided it. i will. egyptians have asked us to share intelligence. jordanians, kuwaits, egyptians, the saudis, elm, kurds, i have been to this region. ...