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| https://www.mccaskill.senate.gov/media-center/latest-headlines/overnight-defense-pentagon-chief-argues-against-ground-force-in-isis-fight | Overnight Defense: Pentagon chief argues against ground force in ISIS fight | 2015-12-09 | 2015 | 2015-12 | Democrat | House | MO | Claire McCaskill | M001170 | www.mccaskill.senate.gov | legacy | Overnight Defense: Pentagon chief argues against ground force in ISIS fight Wednesday, December 9, 2015 By: Rebecca Kheel PENTAGON WARNS AGAINST 'APOCALYPTIC WAR':Also at the Senate committee hearing, Pentagon leaderscriticized proposalsto fight the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) that they say would fuel the terrorist group's recruitment abilities. "It's clear from ISIL's strategy that their objective is to cause us to engage in what they believe is an apocalyptic war with the west," said Gen. Paul Selva, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, using an alternate acronym for ISIS. "And anything that we do to feed that particular frame of thinking counters our national security, and we have to be very careful about how we prosecute a campaign that appears to be an indiscriminate attempt to attack ISIL and the population that surrounds it." Selva was responding to Sen. Claire McCaskill's (D-Mo.) criticism during the hearing of presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz's (R-Texas) call to "carpet bomb" ISIS. "We will carpet bomb them into oblivion," Cruz said last weekend in Iowa. "I don't know if sand can glow in the dark, but we're going to find out." McCaskill slammed Cruz's comments, saying that carpet bombing Iraq or Syria would kill numerous innocent women and children, prompting some to side with ISIS. "If we did an indiscriminate carpet bombing of a major area and killed thousands of women and children, would you assume that would have some impact on their ability to recruit misguided barbarians like this couple that took out more than a dozen innocent people last week?" she said, referring to the couple suspected of carrying out last week's shooting in San Bernardino, Calif. "I would have to assume it would put their recruiting on steroids." Print Email Tweet | 1 | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z |