Air Quote by Ted Cruz

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

I hear somebody saying we should carpet bomb Iraq or Syria. Not only is that inhumane, not only is that contrary to our values,…

— Donald Trump

It is not possible . . . to concentrate enough military planes with military loads over a modern city to destroy that city.

— John Thomason

To the extent that the (ISIS's) advance is a series of urban revolts against the government of PM Nouri al-Maliki, the US would end…

— Juan Cole

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

Using overwhelming air power to utterly and completely destroy ISIS. To put things in perspective, in the first Persian Gulf War, we launched roughly…

— Ted Cruz

You bomb ISIL. You're not trying to bomb innocent people. And that requires intelligence and confidence in our military to be able to develop…

— Barack Obama

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

— Ryan Zinke

On one level, bombing ISIS is easy. The U.S. knows where the group operates. There's no need for a ten-year hunt like the one…

— Richard Engel

Carpet bombing tends to portray something that's totally indiscriminate, you know, en masse without regard to the target.

— Norman Schwarzkopf

There are a lot of car bombs and roadside bombs, house bombs, even, in this city planted by ISIS. So - but it's going…

— Tom Bowman

ISIS, in some cases like Paris, may actually try to direct. But what it's really trying to do is inspire. So its directed activities…

— Michael Leiter