Political Quotes

“Senator McCain was on the floor, and I am sorry I missed him. I was in a briefing. To the American people, the situation in Iraq is dire. Syria has become a launching pad for attacks against the Iraqi people. The ISIS--we don't know who these people are, but we are going to get to know them--are Islamic jihadists based in Syria and Iraq. They are an army, and they are not a bunch of hoodlums. They have a very specific game plan. They want to create an Islamic caliphate and basically dominate Iraq and Syria. Some want to go to Lebanon and want to create an Islamic state that will be ruled under the most extreme version of Islamic law one could imagine--hell on earth for women, not good for us, the end of modern thought in that part of the world. The people of Iraq and Syria are not by their nature radical Islamists. The people who are beginning to win the day on the battlefield come from all over, and they truly are radical Islamists who would put the world in darkness if they could. The next 9/11 is in the making as I speak. These people are using Syria and now Iraq as a training ground for international jihad. There are European jihadists and American jihadists over in the Syria as I speak. Over 2 weeks ago, the largest truck bomb explosion by a suicide bomber in Syria was by an American citizen. And, I hate to say it, but there are more over there today. The question for the United States is: Does it really matter if the ISIS dominates Syria and Iraq or any part thereof?…”