The option of Coalition boots on the ground should be retained as we seek to build our understanding of opposition groups.
Moderate Syrian Opposition forces require significant external support if they are to generate the required combat power...
Most will agree that there can be no future for Syria with Assad in power.
I think the real reason is, we don't have the backbone to take it up and do the job that Congress is supposed to do.
Congress to this point has decided that the budget caps enacted in August 2011 is a higher national priority than defeat...
Ultimately, it's not that we are doing nothing to counter ISIL, it is that there is no compelling reason to believe that...
We do not want to have a debate and vote because we do not want to put our names on it.
I harshly criticize the administration for not sending in a draft authorization over right when they started this legal ...
There is no evidence that Congress is concerned at all about ISIL.
If you're not winning in this kind of warfare, you are losing. Stalemate is not success.
Many of us believe that the goal the President laid out, quote, "to degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL" is right.