“ISIS is a formidable foe, but the counter forces to it have only just begun and if these forces, the Iraqi army, the Kurdish Peshmerga, American air power, the Syrian Free Army, work in a coordinated fashion, it will start losing ground. Also, please keep in mind that ISIS does not actually hold as much ground as the many maps flashed on television keep showing. Large parts of those territories that ISIS supposedly controls are vacant desert.” IfsMindDoeForceAirFashionTelevisionPleaseLosingArmyDesertMapsTerritoryFoeIsisFormidableVacantAir PowerKurdish Author:Fareed Zakaria
“Using overwhelming air power to utterly and completely destroy ISIS. To put things in perspective, in the first Persian Gulf War, we launched roughly 1,100 air attacks a day. We carpet bombed them for 36 days, saturation bombing, after which our troops went in and in a day and a half mopped up what was left of the Iraqi army.” FirstsWarLeftHalfAirPerspectiveArmyOverwhelmingTroopsCarpetIsisBombingPersianOur TroopsAir PowerGulf WarSaturationPersian Gulf Author:Ted Cruz
“We need to use overwhelming air power. We need to be arming the Kurds. We need to be fighting and killing ISIS where they are.” NeedsUseFightingAirKillingOverwhelmingIsisAir PowerKurds Author:Ted Cruz
“You would carpet bomb where ISIS is, not a city, but the location of the troops. You use air power directed - and you have embedded special forces to direction the air power. But the object isn't to level a city. The object is to kill the ISIS terrorists.” UseForceLevelsCitiesAirSpecialObjectsTerroristBombsTroopsLocationCarpetIsisEmbeddedAir PowerSpecial Forces Author:Ted Cruz
“Let me begin by saying that we have to understand who ISIS is. ISIS is a radical Sunni group. They cannot just be defeated through air strikes. Air strikes are a key component of defeating them, but they must be defeated on the ground by a ground force. And that ground force must be primarily made up of Sunni Arabs themselves, Sunni Arabs that reject them ideologically and confront them militarily.” MadeForceGroupsAirKeysLet MeStrikesRadicalRejectsDefeatedComponentsIsis Author:Marco Rubio
“The air strikes are important [to fight ISIS], but we need to have an air force capable of it. And because of the budget cuts we are facing in this country, we are going to be left with the oldest and the smallest Air Force we have ever had. We have to reverse those cuts, in addition to the cuts to our Navy and in addition to the cuts to our Army, as well.” NeedsWellsImportantCountryFightingLeftForceCuttingAirCapableArmyStrikesBudgetsSmallestReverseNavyIsisAir ForceBudget Cuts Author:Marco Rubio
“You can't carpet bomb ISIS if you don't have planes and bombs to attack them with. And if we continue those cuts that we're doing , not to mention additional cuts, we are going to be left with the oldest and the smallest Air Force this country has ever had, and that leaves us less safe.” IfsCountryLeftForceCuttingAirSafePlanesBombsSmallestCarpetIsisAir Force Author:Marco Rubio
“Our job is to provide coalition the military equipment that they need; the air support they need; special forces when appropriate. But at the end of the day for a dozen different reasons, not the least of which is that ISIS would like American combat troops on the ground so they could reach out to the Muslim world and say, "Look, we're taking on those terrible Americans."” WorldNeedsLooksDifferentEndsReasonJobsForceSupportAirSpecialMilitaryTerribleThe End Of The DayAppropriateCombatDozenReach OutTroopsEquipmentIsisCoalitionsMuslim WorldSpecial ForcesMilitary Equipment Author:Bernie Sanders
“We need to do whatever is necessary to utterly defeat ISIS....We're not using our overwhelming air power. We're not arming the Kurds. Those need to be the first steps. And then we need to put whatever ground power is needed to carry it out.” NeedsFirstsStepsAirNeededDefeatOverwhelmingFirst StepsIsisAir PowerKurds Author:Ted Cruz
“We need to wage this war against ISIS from the air, on the ground, and online, in cyberspace.” NeedsWarAirOnlineIsisCyberspace Author:Hillary Clinton
“We also have to intensify our air strikes against ISIS and eventually support our Arab and Kurdish partners to be able to actually take out ISIS in Raqqa, end their claim of being a Caliphate.” EndsAbleSupportAirClaimsStrikesPartnersIsisKurdish Author:Hillary Clinton
“We need to keep our eye on ISIS. That's why I want to have an intelligence surge that protects us here at home, why we have to go after them from the air, on the ground, online, why we have to make sure here at home we don't let terrorists buy weapons.” WantNeedsHomeEyeAirProtectWeaponsTerroristOnlineIsis Author:Hillary Clinton
“We have two thousand nuclear weapons on the trigger alert right now and Hillary Clinton wants to start an air war with Russia, a nuclear-armed power, over Syria as the means of addressing ISIS and the crisis in Syria.” WantMeanTwoWarAirRight NowThousandWeaponsCrisisClintonNuclearRussiaNuclear WeaponsSyriaTriggersIsis Author:Jill Stein