Ash Carter: “Our ends with respect to ISIL needs to be its lasting defeat.”

The international community, United Nations Security Council and especially the other six-party powers must hold North Korea accountable for this latest act and heighten the pressure on North Korea.

I can't support, and won't support, is anything that moves towards instability.

It absolutely is. That's why we quadrupled the European Reassurance Initiative.

We need Congress to come together around providing normal, stable, responsible budgets, because the lack of stability represents one of the single biggest strategic risks to our enterprise at DOD.