The President rightly understands that it is vital to undercut extremist recruiting among the disaffected Sunni Arab pop...
the military action ends when we have ended the capacity of ISIL to engage in broad-based terrorist activity that threat...
I want to be clear: the U.S. troops that have been deployed to Iraq do not and will not have a combat mission.
Many Americans question whether there are any moderates left in the Syrian armed opposition. There are.
That new president had the courage to choose somebody other than the current Prime Minister to say you try to form a gov...
I think at least we owe the Free Syrian Army to negate the air attacks that they will be subjected to when they finish t...
I mean, this is a tough time for America--for Americans to be watching their fellow citizens being beheaded by these sav...
I hope you will lay out a plan that will convince us that you are serious about doing the things you said you were going...
I mean, Iraq was on the brink 2 months ago, and many people were talking about, oh, my god, is it going to break up?
I do not think the American public, and I do not think Congress, will support the United States policing a region that w...
The President absolutely, clearly, by almost any legal standard that I can imagine is not violating the Constitution.
I am very encouraged that various tribal figures in Anbar and Hawija... have come forward to offer to mobilize Sunni Ara...
While Iran has, in common with the emerging international consensus, a strong interest in seeing ISIL defeated, we remai...
If we believe that it would be useful to discuss counter-ISIL efforts with Iran, we may do that on the margins of the P5...
The end goal is to end the nuclear possibility.
The President has the right as the President under Article 2 to defend this Nation and to take the steps necessary to do...
We do not want this just to be-- this is not just an American effort.
And that is why we want Congress to pass AUMF.
