Ben Cardin actually said...

The consequences of failure to deal with these issues will fall squarely on the national security costs to our country.

It should not drive the Senate's decisionmaking on what is one of the most important foreign policy issues of our time.

That is why we have made it clear that that is an unacceptable outcome, for Iran to become a nuclear weapons power.

Research has shown an interesting correlation between traumatic climate events and political strife around the world.