If we find enough Sunnis in Iraq and Syria who are willing to fight against ISIS, that is when we will start to be successful.

the best way to sum it up is our country simply wants this problem gone.

this problem is not going away.

the threat that we face, and ISIL is but one piece of it, is the ideological threat.

I think it would be better to sort of explain, you know, what, it is not a boots-on-the-ground issue.

what I really want to focus on is what should be done, regardless of who it is, who's in charge of it.

I hope the President will heed the advice of his military commanders.

To my mind, is not a logical thing for American counterterrorism purposes.

We need to find some way to contain that and hopefully get us to the point where we can have a peaceful and reasonably stable regime in Afghanistan and in Pakistan.

We would like to see a smoother transition in Afghanistan.

That said, we have got to hand off responsibility at some point and I think it is important we have done this in a stairstep manner.