Chuck Hagel said...

Over time if ISIL is not stopped, and with the economic power that it has now, then what I would foresee happening, not ...

In fact, the Pentagon has presented options to the President and while they are constantly reassessing those and offerin...

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

If Congress would not agree to that request, it would be a pretty devastating message that we send to the world.