"I don’t think either one of them has displayed what I think is the necessary strategy and outlook — the planning and reliance on our military leaders — that will be necessary to succeed," he said. "I hope that whichever one is president that they would call in the David Petraeuses and the Robert Fords and the Ryan Crockers and those individuals, both military and State Department, and diplomats who succeeded in Iraq before the president gave it all away, who know what we need to do to defeat this threat, both militarily and diplomatically and in other ways. And either one of them should call them in and do what they recommend, and that way we can still succeed because America is still the strongest nation on Earth."