Martin Dempsey: “Eliminating one terrible Middle Eastern dictator can too often lead to even more brutal influences filling the…”

ISIL would love nothing more than a large presence of United States forces on the ground in Iraq and Syria so that they could have a call to jihad.

I would not recommend we put United States forces in harm's way... simply to stiffen the spine of local forces.

ISIL's future is increasingly dim as more nations join the anti-ISIL effort.

Under no circumstances should we relieve pressure on Iran relative to ballistic missile capabilities and arms trafficking.