"That’s a pretty good licking for one week of combat operations"

“I agree with the president. I agree with what he’s done so far on his use of force. I agree on his timing. I agree on the fact that he went in with a coalition,” Hunter said.

A member of the House Armed Services Committee, Hunter defended the president against criticism that his deployment of military forces to Libya but not to other Middle Eastern countries where violence has broken out, like Bahrain, was inconsistent and demonstrated a lack of a clear foreign policy vision in the region.

“I don’t think that every time we interject ourselves into the slaughter of innocents like we are here that we have to match that to a consistent foreign policy or a consistent end-state like a lot of the president’s detractors are saying right now,” he said.