To this, he said that we can't restrict our military in such a way; we can't play "nice" with our enemies; and he claimed that we must "get in the gutter" and fight these people with our gloves off.
An echo of Limbaugh/Hannity/Coulter and such.
Bullshit, say I. Those folks scream like hell when someone other than America violates, say, the Geneva Convention. But it's OK for us to do so? Only if you're a cynical hypocrite.
"The wretched world lies now under the tyranny of foolishness; things are believed by Christians of such absurdity as no one ever could aforetime induce the heathen to believe." - Agobard of Lyons,
ca. 830 AD