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I've got a lot of respect for Mike Hayden.
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The danger of having the military take over intelligence is that the military has a very different perspective on the world.
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I think cleaning house at the CIA needed to happen.
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Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.
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Libya is a huge disaster.
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Accepting Syrian refugees into the United States is an emotional issue.
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ISIS has stated that it intends to infiltrate the hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees fleeing the barbaric ISIS terrorists, using their families as cover.
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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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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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Sports are trivial compared to matters of war and peace, but some parallels apply.
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We can find common ground in agreeing that politics have no room in foreign policy.
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We need to recognize the reality of the threat from radical Islam: that it will be an enduring conflict, that there are no easy decisions, and that mistakes have and will be made.
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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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Illicit weapons have always been available to those who can afford them, but they have not generally been the latest state-of-the-art equipment, which requires experience and expertise to use.
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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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Islamic fundamentalists in dark areas of Libya rifled through leftover stockpiles of conventional, chemical, and biological munitions from Muammar Gaddafi's rule. Who knows where they are now?
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The U.S. faces a very dangerous sprint by outlaws to gather the deadliest weapons and technology on the planet, something we always thought possible but hoped would never occur.
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Succeeding against an army of strawmen might feel good as a speech, but in reality, the world is filled with extraordinarily difficult challenges and very real consequences as a result of how we face them.
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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.
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Obama's 'reset' with Russia and 'pivot' to Asia never materialized.
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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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The anniversary of the tragic attacks on September 11, 2001, and September 11, 2012, is a day to remember those who died and suffered. It is also an opportunity to open a new dialogue on the tactics and strategies that have been successful - and unsuccessful - in confronting, containing, and defeating the threat from radical Islam.
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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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The fact is that no foreign-policy doctrine is perfect.
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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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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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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.
Written by Pete Hoekstra
The Panetta/Petraeus combo is a powerful tandem. I've seen both of them up close and personal at the CIA and in Iraq.
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The need to remove Col. Qaddafi should be self-evident.
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A wounded Qaddafi still in power would be an ongoing threat and menace to the rest of the world.
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