Congress to this point has decided that the budget caps enacted in August 2011 is a higher national priority than defeating ISIL.
We do not want to have a debate and vote because we do not want to put our names on it.
If we want to get it behind us and defeat ISIL and get peace in Syria, I think that's going to be necessary, yeah.
When I think of the benefit that we could have had in the United States not to be faced with this refugee crisis, the be...
Is the President steadfast in having a goal that includes Mr. Assad being removed from power?
A political solution in which Assad stays in power, is that acceptable to you?
Many of us believe that the goal the President laid out, quote, "to degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL" is right.
Moderate Syrian Opposition forces require significant external support if they are to generate the required combat power...
Do we have the political and policy backdrop with which to do so?
This is now a war, into the 10th month, without a clear legal basis.
I do not believe that there is any reasonable prospect that it will be possible to retake Mosul this year.