Rubio: ISIS Is ‘The Most Active, Sophisticated, Well-Funded Terrorist Group We Have Ever Confronted’
GOP presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) (AP Photo)
(CNSNews.com) - GOP presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) told CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) “has global ambitions of conquering and flying the black flag of ISIS over the White House,” adding that it is “the most active, sophisticated, well-funded terrorist group we have ever confronted.”
“The ISIS situation is dramatically different from any other terror threat we have ever faced. It's the most active, sophisticated, well-funded terrorist group we have ever confronted, and they need to be defeated,” Rubio said. “Either they win or we win. And when I'm president, we're going to win this battle.
CBS host John Dickerson asked Rubio whether the president was right when he said during his State of the Union address that when Republicans says ISIS is too grave a threat, it’s playing right into the terrorist group’s hands.
“I think playing into their hands would be to ignore the reality of what ISIS has become,” Rubio said. “ISIS is not just some group of radicals on the back of pickup trucks. This is a group that's grown in both influence and sophistication. They have a very sophisticated propaganda program that are recruiting foreign fighters.
“They have a sophisticated understanding of foreign immigration practices. You have seen how they have been able to insert people into Europe using the refugee crisis. This is a group that control significant territory in Iraq and in Syria. This is a serious threat,” said Rubio.
“Can we defeat them? Absolutely, but only if we have a real war against them, which is to find them and destroy them, and if you capture any of them alive, send them to Guantanamo and find out everything they know,” he said.
“The ISIS situation is dramatically different from any other terror threat we have ever faced. It's the most active, sophisticated, well-funded terrorist group we have ever confronted, and they need to be defeated,” Rubio said. “Either they win or we win. And when I'm president, we're going to win this battle.
CBS host John Dickerson asked Rubio whether the president was right when he said during his State of the Union address that when Republicans says ISIS is too grave a threat, it’s playing right into the terrorist group’s hands.
“I think playing into their hands would be to ignore the reality of what ISIS has become,” Rubio said. “ISIS is not just some group of radicals on the back of pickup trucks. This is a group that's grown in both influence and sophistication. They have a very sophisticated propaganda program that are recruiting foreign fighters.
“They have a sophisticated understanding of foreign immigration practices. You have seen how they have been able to insert people into Europe using the refugee crisis. This is a group that control significant territory in Iraq and in Syria. This is a serious threat,” said Rubio.
“Can we defeat them? Absolutely, but only if we have a real war against them, which is to find them and destroy them, and if you capture any of them alive, send them to Guantanamo and find out everything they know,” he said.
Rubio said ISIS “has in-depth understanding of foreign immigration practices.”
“For example, we know that one of the killers in San Bernardino entered the U.S. on a fiancee visa - something that most Americans didn't even know existed - and that process broke down. We didn't have the refugee crisis that we're now facing,” he said.
“We have always had terrorist groups, but even al Qaeda and some of the other groups that are out there are regionally based. They strike at America, as they have in the past on different occasions, but their focus was primarily on the Middle East,” Rubio said.
“This is a group that has global ambitions of conquering and flying the black flag of ISIS over the White House. So, the ISIS situation is dramatically different from any other terror threat we have ever faced,” he said.
“It's the most active, sophisticated, well-funded terrorist group we have ever confronted, and they need to be defeated. Either they win or we win, and when I'm president, we're going to win this battle,” said Rubio.
“For example, we know that one of the killers in San Bernardino entered the U.S. on a fiancee visa - something that most Americans didn't even know existed - and that process broke down. We didn't have the refugee crisis that we're now facing,” he said.
“We have always had terrorist groups, but even al Qaeda and some of the other groups that are out there are regionally based. They strike at America, as they have in the past on different occasions, but their focus was primarily on the Middle East,” Rubio said.
“This is a group that has global ambitions of conquering and flying the black flag of ISIS over the White House. So, the ISIS situation is dramatically different from any other terror threat we have ever faced,” he said.
“It's the most active, sophisticated, well-funded terrorist group we have ever confronted, and they need to be defeated. Either they win or we win, and when I'm president, we're going to win this battle,” said Rubio.
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