US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter addresses military personnel at a Jordanian airbase, and says that the United States and Israel have a “common commitment to countering Iranian malign influence in the region.”
US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter talks with an American F-16 Air Force fighter pilot at a Jordanian Air Base on July 21, 2015. (AFP PHOTO / POOL / CAROLYN KASTER)
Netanyahu “made it quite clear that he disagreed with us with respect to the nuclear deal and Iran. But friends can disagree,” Carter says.
“We will continue to work with Israel and other partners in this region to counter the danger from Iran, even as we do the same with respect to ISIL,” he adds, using another acronym for IS.
“The enemy has to be defeated,” Carter later tells a small group of US mechanics beside an American F-16 in a hangar at the base.
“It will be, because the barbarians are always defeated by civilization, a few by the many,” he adds.
–AFP
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