Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said during the GOP undercard debate Thursday that, unlike President Obama, he would first fight ISIS by actually naming the enemy.
“We’ve got a president who cannot bring himself to say the words ‘radical Islamic terrorism,’” Jindal said in response to a question asking for an example of how he would fight ISIS differently from Obama.
Jindal added that Obama “loves to criticize America, apologize for us, criticize medieval Christians.”
He continued:
How can we beat an enemy if our commander-in-chief doesn’t have the moral honesty and clarity to say that Islam has a problem, and that problem is radical Islam, to say they’ve got to condemn not generic acts of violence, but the individual murderers who are committing these acts of violence.
We’ve got a president who instead says, we’re going to change hearts and minds. Well, you know what? Sometimes you win a war by killing murderous, evil terrorists…
Jindal said that, if elected president, he would “take off the political handcuffs,” and ask the commanders for a plan that will win.
Obama, he said, instead, has told Congress he wants a three-year deadline and a “ban on ground troops.”
“You can’t send your troops into harm’s way unless you give them every opportunity to be successful,” Jindal added.