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The Panetta/Petraeus combo is a powerful tandem. I've seen both of them up close and personal at the CIA and in Iraq.

The policies and laws executed by the grand mufti in Libya, the long-term agenda in the short-lived Morsi government in Egypt, and by ISIS in its ideal Islamist Ummah are incompatible with the Constitution, period.

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The Islamic State has proven that terrorists can seize and deploy modern military equipment on lesser-armed opponents.

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Consumer accountability drives quality and efficiency.

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An issue that really concerned me when I was on the House Intelligence Committee was the quality of analysis.

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America, at its core, is a country of strong and resilient people who are prepared to confront the challenges posed by those who seek to do us harm.

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I'm not OK with clergy, students, and those of different opinions lying and expressing hateful speech in the name of love, but again, it is their constitutional right. I'm not OK with their conduct, but in America we tolerate it, as obnoxious and spiteful as it may be.

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Once the U.S. and NATO walked away from Libya, a chaotic, lawless state in the soft underbelly of Europe arose.

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Boko Haram, by itself, has destroyed large areas in Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, and Niger.

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I'm not OK with clergy, students, and those of different opinions chanting and swearing, but it is their constitutional right.

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Obama sought a strategy of accommodating our enemies, even if they weren't so willing to accommodate us.

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Governing has always been hard.

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Both Presidents George Bush and Barack Obama pursued policies of regime change after 9/11 - with Bush removing al-Qaida's safe haven in Afghanistan and the sadistic anti-American dictator Saddam Hussein in Iraq - but Obama took it a step further and disregarded regional stability as a guiding factor for U.S. policy.

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Foreign policy is painstakingly difficult, and if there is to be anything gained from the experience in Libya, it is how not to conduct world affairs.

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The West needs leaders with the courage and the will to fight the scourge of radical Islam.

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The Eurozone allows for the largely unimpeded movement of people, goods, services, and capital across borders. It has also resulted in unprecedented cooperation on crime, security, and finance among its members.

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Just as sports teams recognize the potentially game-changing benefit of calling time-outs, failing to do so in matters of warfare is a surefire way to continue losing.

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There are no consequences for Snowden breaking the law in Snowden's World. It's where his massively inflated ego dictates the rules and determines which he will follow.

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A real possibility exists that we will be forced to confront, contain, and ultimately defeat radicalism and al-Qaeda alone, or at least with far fewer allies in the region than we had before.

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From my experience as Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, if a congressperson is identified as a potential target by a foreign intelligence service, that individual is notified.

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The world has devolved into a much more hardened and lethal place since that devastating September morning when Islamists assassinated nearly 3,000 Americans in the worst terror attack on U.S. soil.

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Demanding an end to partisan bickering on foreign policy is not an unrealistic requirement.

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I think cleaning house at the CIA needed to happen.

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The silence caused by politicizing speech is deafening.

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Gingrich, Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, and Clinton passed legislation because they understood and appreciated the difficult political process. They fought for their principles yet recognized the need for compromise to get anything done.

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

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America needs a bipartisan foreign policy that is predictable, pragmatic, and understandable.

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After the heavily politicized 2007 Iran NIE, many of us in Congress found it hard to take some intelligence analysis at face value.

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Europe and the United States are better off extending a helping hand to those who know best rather than dictating to them an unfamiliar future.

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Yes, Gaddafi was a ruthless dictator and supporter of terrorism during his 40-year reign in Libya, but he had become an ally of the United States in the fight against radical jihadism after 9/11.

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

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The need to remove Col. Qaddafi should be self-evident.

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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.

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Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.

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

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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.

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Western Europe has been redefining the nation state since 1945 when it formed the European Union following World War II.

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