Probably 35 to 40,000 of those were involved in that fight. That's what it took for us to defeat 6 to 8,000 members of Al Qaeda in Iraq. Now we've got 31,000 members of the Islamic State and we don't have a strategy for defeating them. Listen, I believe they're a threat. I agree with President Obama's goal that they must be defeated. I'm just not seeing the strategy that's actually going to work. (02:23–02:30)
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Asserts that there are currently 31,000 members of the Islamic State and no strategy to defeat them.
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