Air Quote by 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…

— Marco Rubio

We have a duty to fight ISIS; air operations alone will not defeat ISIS.

— Ryan Zinke

Air power will not defeat ISIS. It has not been able to deny ISIS freedom of maneuver and the ability to attack at will.

— Jack Keane

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…

— Marco Rubio

In 2016, Washington and its coalition partners conducted more than 7,000 strikes in Iraq and Syria. And in Libya, the United States has conducted…

— Peter Bergen

Many in the U.S. military believe ISIS needs to be immediately, and repeatedly, smashed by American drones and warplanes.

— Richard Engel

As we keep up the pressure, our air campaign will continue to hit ISIL harder than ever.

— Barack Obama

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…

— Ted Cruz

It's unclear how air strikes on our part can succeed unless the Iraqi army is willing to fight, and that's uncertain given the fact…

— Carl Levin

Among the achievements celebrated in Trump's first 100 days are the 59 cruise missiles launched at the Syrian airfield from which the gas attack…

— Pat Buchanan

“The implications of this speech were not long in coming. On 22 September, emulating the brilliant Israeli gambit of the Six Day War in…

— Efraim Karsh

The air strikes are important [to fight ISIS], but we need to have an air force capable of it. And because of the budget…

— Marco Rubio