Chuck Hagel said...

When you have a national leader, our national world leader, who has left dignity behind, decency behind, honesty, integr...

ISIL is a very clear threat to the United States of America, to our people.

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

This is so unpredictable. And we've never seen anything quite like this in our lifetime, so there is no playbook here.