Marco Rubio actually said...

Syria will remain a fertile ground for an ISIS-like group. It will be Jabhat al Nusra next or somebody else to step up and fill that vacuum ...

Even if you were to wipe them out on the battlefield, the ideology that underpins ISIS, this radical jihadist ideology, will remain in place...

the removal of Assad is critical. It is a critical component.

In my mind, there is no distinction. They are two parts of the same strategy, which is to get people to commit terrorist acts in the name of...