It is time President Obama woke up to the realities in the world and reassert American leadership.

And that does not mean that we're going to send thousands of ground troops back into Iraq or Syria. But it does mean that we develop a policy.

In the case of -- I am told that these bombings, that the American government has said that American planes should not fly, and that, we have somehow approved of these airstrikes.

I do not know if that's true or not. I hope that it's not true.

What we should be saying to Vladimir Putin is that you fly, but we fly anywhere we want to, when and how we want to, and you'd better stay out of the way.

That's the message that should be sent to Vladimir Putin.