Elissa Slotkin actually said...

I think, unfortunately, the struggles across both Iraq and Syria will take years, not months.

The predictability is critical to making sure that we have the flexible, agile posture, presence, capabilities that we need to handle these ...

military success must be complemented with political reconciliation and reform, or it certainly isn't lasting.

I think that deterrence is a fundamental concept that we think about and work on every day in the Department.