Cruz: Focus Should Be Taking Out ISIS; ‘Urgent Concern To Strike While ISIS Is Vulnerable’

Cruz: Focus Should Be Taking Out ISIS; "Urgent Concern To Strike While ISIS Is Vulnerable" (RealClearPolitics)

JEFF ZELENY, ABC NEWS CORRESPONDENT: As the White House sharpens its focus on ISIS, foreign policy is back on the front burner of domestic politics. Republicans are unified in their criticism of President Obama, but they're divided on solutions.

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ZELENY (voice-over): Last night in New Hampshire, Senator Ted Cruz sounded the alarm.

SEN. TED CRUZ (R), TEXAS: That this nation literally teeters at the edge of a precipice.

ZELENY: And offered a scolding assessment of how the U.S. is confronting the threat from ISIS.

After bringing GOP activists to their feet, we asked him what he would do.

CRUZ: What we ought to have is a direct concerted overwhelming air campaign to take them out.

ZELENY (on camera): In Iraq and Syria?

CRUZ: The focus should be Iraq, but the real focus should be taking out ISIS. Within Syria, it should not be our objective to try to resolve the civil war in Syria and -- and likewise...