We must be honest in acknowledging that neither Germany nor the U.S. has the luxury of assuming that we can skate by on half-measures in Afghanistan and Pakistan and not risk suffering the consequences.
As Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Barak have repeatedly said, the intelligence and security relationship between the United States and Israel at present is unprecedented. It has never been stronger.
We are safer if there are not nuclear arsenals around the planet that can be utilized, stolen, sold to terrorists and others who would do harm.
In this day and age, the U.S. and Europe do not have the luxury of focusing solely on a single region.
Americans understand that our security is enhanced when the United States is trusted and respected in the world.
South Africa’s increasingly, for example, the largest foreign investor in various other parts of Africa.
I spend every day up at the United Nations where I have to interact with 192 other countries. I know how well the United States is viewed.
Our bottom line, if you want to call it a red line, president’s bottom line has been that Iran will not acquire a nuclear weapon and we will take no option off the table to ensure that it does not acquire a nuclear weapon, including the military option.
Legislation that would withhold funding for the United Nations is fundamentally flawed in concept and practice, sets us back, is self-defeating, and doesn’t work.
What I learned is that policymakers have to force consideration of actions that may not have occurred to them at the time.