Chuck Hagel said...

I happen to believe, and I think the President has said it, that a political solution is the only viable solution.

Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism. All the other issues.

Oh, this is beyond anything that we've seen. So we must prepare for everything and the only way you do that is you take ...

the mission he has been tasked with is to degrade and destroy, not to contain, not to minimize, et cetera.