Ashton Carter actually said...

It costs money. It costs lives in a war if you are, for example, trucking fuel around.

Carter emphasizes the importance of energy security for national defense and its impact on lives and costs.

02/14/2011

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this new deal--when implemented--will place significant limitations on Iran that will effectively cut off its pathways to the fissile materi...

The United States will fly, sail, and operate wherever international law allows, as U.S. Forces do all over the world.

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of that because that is mostly a matter for the European Union (EU) rather than the United States.

We have serious concerns with Iranian malign activities outside of the nuclear issue.