It would be very, I think, immoral to put someone in that position knowing that is coming their way with some capability...
My assessment is we would have a significant degradation of our counterterrorism mission in Afghanistan, were we to do t...
Most of the countries that you spoke about all have a shared goal of removing Assad from power.
If we were to fail in stopping ISIL, I think you will see an expansion of ISIL not only across the Middle East but outsi...
There is no question in my mind that the young men and women that we have deployed right now... are protecting our Natio...
I do believe that is absolutely in our National interest to do that, Senator.
There is no question it would create risk.
I think if not the proximate cause of the ISIL movement, certainly one of the primary drivers of the ISIL movement was t...
So at the end of the day, I do not want the tsunami to come, so we are going to have to stop these guys.
The President could not have chosen a better person to be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
How in the world are we going to dislodge ISIL from Syria without a ground component?
The reason I want to continue to invest in Afghanistan... is because they are trying to hit us.
If it doesn't, we are incredibly stupid as a nation.
I think they want to hit us.
The only reason 3,000 Americans died on 9/11 is that the radical Islamists who attacked us could not find a way to kill ...
The only way you can keep them from coming back here to America is to stay over there, disrupt their operations.
I want to withdraw from Afghanistan responsibly. I want lines of defenses over there so they don't come here.
Do you think AQAP [al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula] wants to hit us? Very definitely.
