Newt Gingrich was on with CNN this morning and nailed it as far as I’m concerned on what the US should be doing about the threat of ISIS. And the first thing he pointed out was telling the truth about ISIS, that it’s a radical Islamic extremist organization that will kill everyone unless they convert to Islam. He didn’t mention how puritanical they are about it, but close enough.
He was then asked what the US should be doing and he said this:
I think that we should be arming and training the kurds who are very reliable. We should be arming the traditional tribes with whom we had very good relations back when we were in Iraq. We should be providing air power in a massive way. We should be hunting down ISIS anywhere it exists, whether it’s in northern Syria, Lebanon or it’s in Iraq.
But our goal shouldn’t be to stop ISIS. Our goal should be to destroy ISIS. This is a radical anti-human organization.
…I think if you train and equip kurds and traditi sunni tribes and ally yourself with everybody who wants to defeat isis you will in fact defeat ISIS.
Another excellent point he made is that ISIS is a WORLDWIDE threat, not just a local threat to Iraq. They are in Syria, in Lebanon, and in Iraq. We can’t just pawn this off on Iraq and say ‘good luck’ defeating ISIS.
Watch the full interview: