Chuck Hagel said...

I believe the President has the statutory and constitutional authority to take the action that he is doing to protect th...

We got to destroy it, because if we don't destroy it, it will get worst and it will get wider and deeper.

the mission he has been tasked with is to degrade and destroy, not to contain, not to minimize, et cetera.

There's a perception that it is the military's responsibility to fix the problem. Problems are not fixed by militaries.