Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) declared, “I don’t think we have a plan for destroying ISIL,” and “I think our objective today is to degrade them, to keep them on their heels” on Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Hardball.” Murphy said, “There’s no white knights there. And what we have already seen when we try to run this train and equip program, is that the so-called Syrian moderates really aren’t interested in just fighting ISIS, right? They want US help to be able to fight ISIL and to fight Assad. And so, this fine line that we’re trying to walk here, which is to put special forces on the ground to only fight one set of bad guys, when inevitably we’re going to be asked to be drawn into the fight against Assad is impossible. And of course, the very people we’re trying to help are deeply intertwined with our mortal enemy, al Qaeda, or at least they’re affiliated there. When asked, “Do we have a plan for destroying ISIL?” Murphy answered, “Well, I don’t think we have a plan for destroying ISIL, today. No, I think our objective today is to degrade them, to keep them on their heels, to try to eliminate