Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman, Representative Trent Franks from Arizona, and I thank Steve King for making some good points about Iran and the mistakes made by this administration in canceling the third site. And I was with the group that went and talked to the people in Warsaw and Prague, and they were not happy. They put the best face on it. They knew it was inevitable, but they were not and are not happy. And, yes, there are attempts to contain Iran with a theater defense, and that's good as far as it goes. But theater defense for missiles against missiles is not the same as defense against intercontinental ballistic missiles. And that's what we would have had with the ground based interceptors in Poland. So, yes, I do like that we will have Aegis ships with theater missile defense missiles on them in places around Iran. I'm troubled by the role of Turkey. I think they are not as stable of an ally as they once were under their current leadership. And I'm not sure they're very dependable these days. I hope they become more so. But Iran is developing threats that will go beyond our theater defenses faster than we will have intercontinental protection in place. So they will be able to go beyond our theater defenses before we have intercontinental defenses. So their threat is emerging faster than our defenses will be put into place.…”