Jeb: Here Are the 6 Steps to Destroy ISIS

The United States needs a strong military with a strong commander-in-chief that respects it, GOP candidate Jeb Bush told Newsmax TV's J.D. Hayworth and John Bachman Friday, and a leader who has a solid strategy for defeating the Islamic State.

"Today, we have a leader that is feckless that does not believe America's strength and leadership is appropriate, and he doesn't have a strategy to destroy ISIS," the former Florida governor said.

Bush, noting that he has an extensive strategy for defeating ISIS, said the United States already has boots on the ground in Syria and Iraq.

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"We have special operators in Syria; we have 3,500 troops in Iraq," said Bush. "What we need is a strategy with American leadership to forge that coalition."

He noted that he gave a speech concerning his strategy in August at the Ronald Reagan Library, even before the attacks in Paris and San Bernardino.

"We need to restore at the core of our foreign policy, which is peace through strength," said Bush. "A strong military with a strong commander-in-chief that respects the military could solve this problem."

Bush said his strategy, would include arming the Kurds,  embedding U.S. soldiers with the Iraqi military, [and] re-engaging with the Sunni leaders in Anbar Province.

He continued that he would enforce "a no-fly zone in Syria [and] safe zones in Syria to deal with both the refugee challenge that the world faces to keep people there," and would "build this army, a unified army, Sunni-led by Syrians, to be able to ultimately create stability in Syria and to destroy ISIS."

The final issue, Bush said, is that the military has had additional requirements imposed on it through legal restrictions.

"It is outrageous that this administration has imposed additional requirements of war fighting," said Bush. "To me, it is outrageous because it endangers the troops. You cannot have lawyers on top of the war fighters of this extraordinary military force. Of course, the military should apply the standards of war fighting that are the international norms."

Further, said Bush, the United States should not "worry about the civil liberties of an ISIS sympathizer. We're at war and we should treat it accordingly."

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