Ashton Carter actually said...

No attack--no attack--will affect our resolve to accelerate the defeat of ISIL.

Carter asserts that terrorist attacks will not weaken the U.S. commitment to defeating ISIL.

03/21/2016

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I believe that a stable, multi-sectarian Iraq is the only way to ensure the long-term defeat of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (IS...

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 are trying to stick up for the principle that Iraq is a single, unitary, multi-sectarian state.

We will not allow the Russian Federation to gain a significant military advantage through its violation of an arms control treaty.