Absolutely.
I believe in a strong, healthy industrial base, and I am concerned that changes in the defense market may impact that base.
A strong, agile, safe, secure, effective, nuclear arsenal for the United States is not debatable.
I supported legislation to create a bipartisan commission several years ago to help us--Senator Levin and others supported that.
Bilateral, never unilateral. Nothing was ever suggested on a unilateral basis to take down our arsenal. Negotiated, verifiable.
In the surge case in Iraq, we lost almost 1,200 dead Americans during that surge and thousands of wounded.
The reason that they didn't is because they were involved in negotiations with the Russians in the U.N.
I think the President is right to consider those.
I view the Department's shaping and prevention efforts as vital to our overall national security.
I've always argued against some of the dumb things they do because I don't think it's in the interest of Israel.
I have not supported unilateral sanctions because when it is us alone, they do not work and they just isolate the United States.