Ted Poe: “Today the terrorist army of ISIS is stronger than ever. It maims, rapes, pillages, burns, and beheads in its zeal to…”

“Today the terrorist army of ISIS is stronger than ever. It maims, rapes, pillages, burns, and beheads in its zeal to commit religious genocide against anyone who disagrees with them. ISIS controls and manipulates the minds of thousands of foreign fighters, including those who come from the United States. This is done arrogantly through American social media companies. The U.S.' answer to the ISIS threat? Well, let's see what it is. Part of the current U.S. strategy is to train foreign mercenaries to fight against ISIS. It has had a yearlong American budget of about $500 million. The program is to equally fund equipment and to train these so-called moderates from Syria to fight ISIS. I call them mercenaries. However, the Secretary of Defense of the United States--Carter-- admitted that, even after this 1 year of training, the United States has only trained 60--six, zero--of these moderate Syrian rebels. If I do my math correctly, Mr. Speaker, we are spending about $4 million apiece on these 60 fighters to go and fight, supposedly, ISIS. This is embarrassingly pathetic. The greatest nation that has ever existed sees ISIS as such a threat that we are going to send 60 folks over to try to take care of them. Ironically, there are more Americans who are fighting with ISIS than we have rebels who have been trained to fight against ISIS. The United States obviously is not taking ISIS seriously.…”