JINDAL: If they had aggressively trained those rebels and the Kurds in the beginning, we'd be in a different place. You wouldn't have Putin and Assad working with Hezbollah and Iran. We need to create a no-fly zone, working with the Turkish and other allies.
Q: ISIS doesn't have aircraft. So, what would that no-fly zone really accomplish?
JINDAL: It accomplishes a couple of things. Number one, it helps to stabilize the region, so you don't have all these refugees flooding into Europe. Secondly, it gives us space for moderates, for Kurds and others, to group and to plan attacks against ISIS, against Assad. Third, it keeps Russia from bombing our allies. We're here because this president drew a red line, didn't enforce it. We're here because this president has put political handcuffs on the military, won't let them go after ISIS and get the job done.
JINDAL: Well, I don't think you take any option off the table. If the military says we need ground troops to wipe out ISIS, as commander in chief, you have got to be open to that option. These are radical Islamic terrorists, we can't negotiate with them. We have got to hunt them down and kill them.
Q: You don't think that's what they're doing now? We've had thousands and thousands of airstrikes.
JINDAL: I don't think we have fought this war. No, I disagree. I think if this president were serious, we could wipe them out. I think there are more things that we can be doing. I think our military could be much more effective.
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The above quotations are from ABC This Week interviews during 2015 (George Stephanopoulous interviewing candidates for 2015 and 2016 races). Click here for other excerpts from ABC This Week interviews during 2015 (George Stephanopoulous interviewing candidates for 2015 and 2016 races). Click here for other excerpts by Bobby Jindal. Click here for a profile of Bobby Jindal.
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