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Despite what you hear in the news from the Obama administration and the military, our strategy of conducting infrequent airstrikes and re-taking pockets of Iraq and Syria terrain will only help us achieve short-lived tactical victories.

You can't talk about defeating insurgencies in the same way that you can with a conventional army.

You cannot defeat Islamic State with airstrikes only. It's necessary to cooperate with ground troops, and the Syrian army is the most efficient and powerful ground force to fight the Islamic State.

Assad has to go. I mean, the way that ISIS can recruit, and the rebels that are in the north, and all the chaos that's happening through a lot of Syria circles around a lot of people that do not like Assad.

There are still plenty of fighting forces inside of Syria who want to see Assad go. We should have been helping them from the very beginning.

If you want to hear arguments against deploying a big U.S. ground force in Syria, just ask a general.

Assad is the president of Syria. He enjoys fairly effective control over his country.

Offensive operations and hunting down the enemy is an integral part of any counterinsurgency approach.

Only the last two planes, I think, had any shot of being intercepted and taken down on 9/11.

Syria is still the foundation of the axis of evil, and I'm not sure it's appropriate to transfer Israel's northern front to the axis of evil.