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The Kurds in Iraq just don't have enough military equipment - they also need humanitarian relief.

The Kurds in Iraq just don't have enough military equipment - they also need humanitarian relief.

While the primary focus continues to be on religious minorities - the Christian religious minorities and the Jewish community - ISIS will also go after people who interpret and believe the Muslim faith differently than they do.

We can find common ground in agreeing that politics have no room in foreign policy.

Ensuring that the intelligence community adheres to its responsibilities to report on its activities to Congress is absolutely essential.

The overall feckless strategy against ISIS in Syria and Iraq enabled the Islamist organization to expand its domain and drive out more religious minorities.

Gadhafi opponents included many 'good guys,' but they never received the support necessary to govern a new Libya after he was gone.

Briefly after the 9/11 attacks, Republicans and Democrats were united in identifying the evil of the radical jihadists and fighting it.

The U.S. might have diminished al-Qaeda's capabilities in the border region of Pakistan and Afghanistan, but it has not diminished the threat from radical Islamist terrorists as a whole.

The silence caused by politicizing speech is deafening.

I think cleaning house at the CIA needed to happen.

Good governance requires working toward common ground. It isn't easy.

Clinton appears to be the sole holdout in the Obama administration in understanding the catastrophe caused by its foreign policy in Libya.

The answer as to why ISIS gained power and influence, and why stability in the Middle East has disastrously deteriorated, does not require extensive analysis.

Consumer accountability drives quality and efficiency.

The Obama administration notoriously refuses to acknowledge that Islamists commit Islamist terror, so it logically follows that a Christian victim of Islamist violence should not address the issue lest it challenge accepted political orthodoxy.

The fact is that no foreign-policy doctrine is perfect.

America has historically met the challenges to its national security with decisive actions that defeated or, at a minimum, contained the threat.

Sports are trivial compared to matters of war and peace, but some parallels apply.

No president can amend the past, and the public is tired of candidates who simply point fingers instead of offering their own solutions. They want a leader who will describe the threats as they are and rally the country behind a strategy to defeat them.