george schultz warned, they warned obama's deal, quote, risked empowering iran's hedge monthic efforts in the region, and of course they, right. it besoda a windfall of billions for the regime to distribute to its proxies. obama's deal with tehran prevented his administration from take a regional approach to stop iran because it feared that iran would step away from the deal. but today we can take a different approach with a new administration. today we can combat iran's capability to fund, arm, and train terrorists like hezbollah. and hay amass, and his proxies in syria. and at leads to a broader point as well. the best way to bolser israel's security in the region is to enhance america's influence in the region. [ applause ] >> in my view, the best way do so is by focus on three areas. rebuilding our capabilities here, rebuilding our partnerships, and, frankly, rebuilding our will. so the first step is to rebuild our capabilities. we need a multi-year plan to rebuild our own military, our total force needs to be rebuilt if america's to remain capable of fulfilling ps traditio

george shultz warned, they warned, obama's deal "risk empowering iran and, of course, they were right." it bestowed a wind fall for billions to distribute to the proxies, obama's deal with tehran prevented his administration from taking a regional approach to stop iran. today we can combat iran's ability to funneld terrorists l hezbollah and hamas and the proxies and syria. and at least to a broader point as well. the best way to bolster israel's security in the region is to enhance america's influence in the region. the best way to do so is by focusing on three areas, three areas -- rebuilding our capabilities here, rebuilding our partnerships, and, frankly, rebuilding our will. so the first step is rebuild our capability. we need a multiyear plan to rebuild our own military, our total force needs to be rebuilt of america's to remain capable of fulfilling the traditional role as guarantor of the international order. during the obama administration, we had times where our commanders lacked sufficient aircraft carrier presence or tactical units like marine expeditionary units to meet c

and george schultz warned, they warned, obama's deal, quote, risk empowering iran's efforts in the region and, of course, they were right. it bestowed a win fall of billions to distribute to the proxies. obama's deal with teheran deter yated the administration from taking a regional approach to stop iran because it feared iran would step away from the deal. but today we can take a different approach with a new administration. today we can combat iran's capability to fund, arm and train terrorists like hezbollah. [ applause ] and hamas. and its proxies in syria. and it leads to a broader point, as well. the best way to bolster israel's security in the region is to enhance america's influence in the region. [ applause ] in my view the best way to do so is focusing on three areas. three areas. rebuilding our capabilities here. rebuilding our partnerships. and frankly, rebuilding our will. [ applause ] so the first step is to rebuild our capability. we need to multi-year plan to rebuild our own military, our total force needs to be rebuilt if america is to remain capable of guarantor o