What Scott Walker Says Will Happen If 'Radical Islamic Terrorism' Isn't Completely Stamped Out

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker took a shot at President Barack Obama in front of New Hampshire Republicans on Saturday, saying America needs a president who will speak in far stronger terms about its biggest threat.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker answers questions at a training workshop for the state Republican Party in the auditorium at Concord High School Saturday, March 14, 2015, in Concord, N.H. (Image source: AP/Jim Cole)

"We need a commander in chief in this country who stands up once and for all and says our biggest threat is radical Islamic terrorism," Walker told a group of GOP activists, the Journal Sentinel in Milwaukee reported, "and we will do whatever it takes to weed that out anywhere in the world."

A potential candidate for the 2016 election, Walker added: "We need a president who will do whatever it takes, whatever it takes. Who understands we have an ally in Israel and we should start acting like it. Who understands that radical Islamic terrorism is like a virus and if you don't take it out entirely, it's like a virus in your computer that will keep coming back."

As for how to combat radical Islam, Walker seemed to imply he'd deploy troops.

"And I don't know about all of you," he said, the Journal Sentinel reported, "but I'd rather take the fight to them than wait 'til it comes to us on American soil."

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Walker spoke for about 20 minutes and took three questions from the stage in an auditorium named for Christa McAuliffe, the Concord High School science teacher who was killed when the Challenger space shuttle exploded in 1986.

One person asked Walker whether he would abolish the federal income tax.

"I haven't proposed that, though it sounds pretty tempting right now," Walker said before discussing his support for lowering taxes.

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