Richard B. Nugent: “I mean, it really is. And I know the President doesn't want to go there, but it is radical extremism in Islam across the…”

Eliminating the ability to rapidly mobilize, train, and deploy... increases risk at an unacceptable rate.

I absolutely appreciate the chairman doing that and would love to work with him.

People forget that there is actually flesh and blood, parents and children, of those young men and women that are serving this country. They forget there are real people in those uniforms. And so that is why this is so important.

I think we can do that, but I think we need to avoid as some people are trying--seeing Kurds as the solution to this problem.