Bobby Jindal in ABC This Week interviews during 2015


On War & Peace: No-fly zone in Syria, to support Syrian rebels

Q: You supported training Syrian rebels and that has been a complete failure. So what would work?

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.

Source: ABC This Week 2015 interview by Martha Raddatz Oct 11, 2015

On War & Peace: U.S. ground troops to wipe out ISIS

Q: Would you send in and how many troops approximately into Syria, U.S. troops?

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.

Source: ABC This Week 2015 interview by Martha Raddatz Oct 11, 2015

On Homeland Security: Hillary should not be above the law in her email scandal

With Hillary Clinton, it just seems to be one scandal after another. If any private in the military, if any other government official, had handled classified information the way she is said to have handled classified information, there would have been a court martial, there would have been even criminal prosecution. There would have certainly been consequences. She shouldn't be above the law. There shouldn't be a different set of rules for our elected leaders than for the rest of us.
Source: ABC This Week 2015 interviews of 2016 presidential hopefuls Aug 30, 2015

The above quotations are from ABC This Week interviews during 2015
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