Jeb Bush to Voter

“Wow. I would say, first of all, the United States needs to lead, but it needs to lead just as, use another example of where my father played a role, in Operation Desert Storm: The United States led in a coalition that was the whole world, basically, and it was done with an objective. And once the objective was complete, we left. And that’s the way we should do it. There ought to be a clear strategy. It ought to be an approach that brings in as many partners as possible. The objective ought to be the air power of the United States – this is one place where we continue to dominate, and having boots on the ground to be able to identify the targets better, to have cooperation with, in the case of Iraq, with the Iraqi people themselves, to help part of this. If the Iraqi people don’t want this or aren’t willing to, you know, to fight, it’s really hard to imagine a foreign force coming in and creating a permanent solution to this. You have to have the cooperation with the neighborhood as well, so I agree with the sentiment, but I think it has to be with American leadership and cooperation with a lot of other folks.”