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It was my impression early in this conflict that when this arose, and by the way, it is important to remind everyone that this was not a U.S.-instigated thing.

ISIL must be defeated, period. End of story.

There may not be anyone left for us to arm or train if Assad is continued to be given free rein to target them.

I am in favor of doing this. I have actually called for this for quite a while.

Had more of the moderate groups... had they had these things--cash, ammo, food--in greater supplies... it would have been very hard for Nusra to gain recruits.

I have supported the training and arming of these rebels for some time.

I hope that what we are going to end up with is more than a group of coat holders.

I was shocked yesterday to hear that in the Armed Services testimony these rebels are actually going to be used against ISIS.

Well, it is not a hypothetical. It is actually--it appears to be, quite frankly, we are relying on a military strategy built on rebels.

He says he sees no point in coordinating with a country whose hands are dirty.

I would just say that any hopes of coordinating with Iran, who I consider to be just as evil as ISIS, is something that I would discourage for a number of different reasons.

It seems to me the administration has placed many, many caveats on what we will not do.

It seems from here to appear to be that Assad is undertaking a very deliberate strategy of trying to wipe out what we could call moderate forces.

Had we been more forceful early on... do you think that it is possible that you would--that that space that was left there for ISIL may never have existed?