You can't call ISIS the JV team. You can't say that they're contained. Sure, we've had some success, but we have not defeated them.
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ISIS is a battle-hardened, highly trained organization that is well-funded. They're one of the strongest armies in the world for their size.
As long as ISIS is not overtly losing, they'll continue to be perceived as winners.
We can rebuild an alliance to fight ISIS, but we have to lead, and we have to give our allies what they are asking us to do. We do not have to march off to war, but we have to help our allies fight a war which we need them to win.
We have to face the fact that ISIS and its army of like-minded jihadists are determined to win that war and believe they are on the path to victory. They may well be right.
We have to defeat ISIS. We have to make certain that we destroy them and that we push them back.
Make no mistake: we will win, and groups like ISIL will lose.
The acronym ISIS stands for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. But increasingly, we see that it's not limited there. We see it in Egypt. We see it in Libya. We see it in Afghanistan.
We must take all that territory away from ISIS.
ISIS has leadership, just like al Qaeda has leadership. It's important to be able to eliminate the individuals that are leading the organization.
If your goal is to destroy ISIS, there needs to be a ground force. It could be American or foreign.
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