OUR REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT:

Defense Secretary Ash Carter, in a Sunday visit with American and coalition forces at the Joint Operations Center in Erbil, the Kurdish capital in northern Iraq, said he commended American fighters here who are supporting "elements in Syria" and working to envelop Raqqa. Quickening the pace of targeting ISIS leaders, known in military parlance as "high-value targets" or "high-value individuals," has hurt the terrorist group's ability to launch external "attacks aimed at our own people, our own country, and friends and allies," he said.

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