Lindsey Graham: “Well, we should understand that the direct threat of the homeland is growing by the day. If you want to be indifferent…”

“Well, we should understand that the direct threat of the homeland is growing by the day. If you want to be indifferent to what is going on in Iraq and say that people are dying all over the world and that is no reason for us to care or get involved, because we can't be everywhere all the time doing everything for everybody, I would suggest to you that ISIL in Syria and Iraq represents a growing threat to our homeland. But you don't have to believe me. Ask our intelligence community. Over 10,000 foreign fighters have gone into Syria in support of ISIL over the last few months. Their goal is to hit the American homeland, so this JV team is becoming an existential threat--maybe not existential, maybe that is an overstatement--a real threat to the American homeland. Ramadi is a big victory for them. It is a recruiting tool. They have been able to take on the Iraqi Army. They have been able to stand up to constant air assault by the American forces. They are surviving, and they are thriving. So if you want to stop the flow of foreign fighters into the arms of ISIL, you have to deliver stinging defeats on the battlefield. Not only are they stronger today in Iraq and Syria than they have been in quite a while, but they are expanding their influence to Libya, Afghanistan, and throughout the region. All I can tell you is their agenda includes three things--the purification of their religion, which means 3-year-old little girls are executed.…”