so he already has a very steep climb to actually becoming president. and i think that many of those people went from seeing this as a kind of entertaining joke to being a dead serious political situation. and it was topic number one when cnn aired another debate on december 15th. governor bush, you called mr. trump unhinged when he proposed banning non-american muslims from the united states. why is that unhinged? donald, you know, is great at the one-liners. but he s chaos candidate. and he would be a chaos president. he would not be the commander in chief we need to keep our country safe. mr. trump? [ cheers and applause ] jeb doesn t really believe i m unhinged. he said that, very simply, because he has failed in this campaign.
europe and our allies. this is not going to get done just by working with the sunnis. and it is not going to get done if we just embed a few people. we have to go massively like we did in the first gulf war where we destroyed saddam s ability to take kuwait. we need to have a coalition that will stand for nothing less than the total destruction of isis and we have to be the leader. we can t wait for anybody else. i served on the armed services committee for 18 years and we must lead or the job won t get done, unfortunately, for our country. thank you, governor. senator rubio. let s continue this conversation. this is a critically important issue. i hope at some point you re going to ask me my strategy for defeating isis. we have a lot of time. i want to get senator rubio right now. one of the aspects of your
at the one liners. but he s a chaos candidate. and he d be a chaos president. he would not be the commander-in-chief we need to keep our country safe. [ applause ] mr. trump. jeb doesn t really believe i m unhinged. he said that very simply because he has failed in this campaign. it s been a total disaster. nobody cares. and, frankly, i m the most solid person up here. i built a tremendous company and all i want to do is make america great, again. i don t want our country to be taken away from us and that s what s happening. the policies that we ve suffered under other presidents have been a disaster for our country. we want to make america great again. and, jeb, in all fairness, he doesn t believe that. look, he mentioned me. i can talk. this is the problem. banning all muslims will make it harder for us to do exactly what we need to do. which is to destroy isis.
the refugee issue will be solved if we destroy isis there. we need to embed our forces, our troops inside the iraqi military. we need to arm directly the kurds and all of that has to be done in concert with the arab nations. if we re going to ban all muslims, how are we going to get them to be part of a coalition to destroy isis? the kurds are our strongest allies. they re muslim. look, this is not a serious proposal. in fact, it will push the muslim world, the arab world away from us at a time when we need to reengage with them to be able to create a strategy to destroy isis. so, donald, you know, is great at the one liners. but he s a chaos candidate. and he d be a chaos president. he would not be the commander in chief we need to keep our country safe. mr. trump. jeb doesn t really believe i m unhinged. he said that very simply because he has failed in this campaign. it s been a total disaster. nobody cares. and, frankly, i m the most solid person up here. i built a tremendous c