I think if not the proximate cause of the ISIL movement, certainly one of the primary drivers of the ISIL movement was the abuses of the Assad regime.
There is no question it would create risk.
I do believe that is absolutely in our National interest to do that, Senator.
The reason I want to continue to invest in Afghanistan... is because they are trying to hit us.
Would you agree they're the primary destabilizing influence right now in the Mideast, they're supporting extremist organ...
Do you agree with me, the greatest threat of all is a radical Islamic nation-state with a nuclear weapon?
The Marine Corps, in my view, is the--for--pound for pound, the finest fighting force that we've ever created.
I want to withdraw from Afghanistan responsibly. I want lines of defenses over there so they don't come here.
Do you think AQAP [al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula] wants to hit us? Very definitely.
If we impose sequestration and we fully implement by 2021, the Marine Corps will be in a bad spot.
Everything they have said they would do, they have done.