ISIS Quotes
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	Donald Trump says he knows more about ISIS than the generals. No, he doesn't.   
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	I think we need to go after Baghdadi, as well, make that one of our organizing principles. Because we've got to defeat ISIS, and we've got to do everything we can to disrupt their propaganda efforts online.   
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	I hope by the time I am president that we will have pushed ISIS out of Iraq.   
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	We are not putting ground troops into Iraq ever again. And we're not putting ground troops into Syria. We're going to defeat ISIS without committing American ground troops.   
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	I think that, given the threat that ISIS poses to the region and beyond, as we have sadly seen in our own country, it is important to keep the Iraqi army on a path where they can actually take back territory, to work with the Sunni tribes in Anbar province and elsewhere so that their fighters can be also deployed, to work with the Kurds to provide them the support, but they're doing the fighting. We're doing the support and enabling.   
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	We need to have a resolve that will bring the world together to root out the kind of radical jihadist ideology that motivates organizations like ISIS, a barbaric, ruthless, violent jihadist, terrorist group.   
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	Of course, ISIS is a terrible organization that has to be defeated. And, of course, we need a strong military. But just as with every other agency of government, you know what, the military also has got to get rid of waste and fraud and cost overruns.   
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	Russia hasn't paid any attention to ISIS. They're interested in keeping Assad in power.   
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	In the midst of the war against ISIS, we have also waged war on corruption in civil and military institutions.   
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	I think it's important that we do it defeat ISIS in concert with other nations in Europe, the Middle East, elsewhere if necessary. And that means you've got to work with people. You don't insult them. You don't insult their religion. And it means we have to see our entire country, all of the people in it, as part of our first line of defense.   
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	Then when ISIS moved into Iraq, the Sunni Muslims didn’t object to their being there and about a third of the territory in Iraq was abandoned.   
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	We finally are where we need to be. We have a strategy and a commitment to go after ISIS.   
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	I will take a backseat to no one in keeping America safe. I have a very clear set of proposals about how we defeat ISIS.   
 
					 
					