We need to just have a more robust effort. We need to assemble that coalition of the willing. And the reason we haven't assembled them is because we have not shown the leadership. President Obama took off the table that the same day that he declared the goal, he basically took off the table the very ingredient that was going to be necessary and that's American troops on the ground. Now I don't think we have to have that many of them. We haven't heard out of this administration a real strategy for defeating isis, but we actually have to show the leadership so that the coalition of the wielding will actually assemble around us. (02:41–02:52)
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Asserts that President Obama removed the option of deploying American troops on the ground against ISIS.
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