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Pete Hoekstra
Good governance requires working toward common ground. It isn't easy.
Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.
Hard work, years of sacrifice, and dedication are necessary to succeed in the real world. Snowden's most notable accomplishment was lying about his military service, his experience, and education to procure a job with the NSA in the first place.
The Kurds in Iraq just don't have enough military equipment - they also need humanitarian relief.
The primary role of government is to provide for the safety and security of their populations.
America needs to fully grasp the lessons learned from our history of fighting radical jihadists. There have been successes and failures.
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.
Obama's 'reset' with Russia and 'pivot' to Asia never materialized.
An issue that really concerned me when I was on the House Intelligence Committee was the quality of analysis.
Accepting Syrian refugees into the United States is an emotional issue.
Western Europe has been redefining the nation state since 1945 when it formed the European Union following World War II.
House Speaker John Boehner and presumed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell understand the art of politics.
ISIS filled the vacuum in Iraq and Syria created by a lack of effective governance.
Libya became a rat's nest of extremism after NATO helped depose dictator Moammar Gadhafi, and it now exports weapons, jihadists, and ideology to Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
Clinton appears to be the sole holdout in the Obama administration in understanding the catastrophe caused by its foreign policy in Libya.
Complying with requests from Congress is not optional. It is mandatory.
As a member and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee during the 2000s, I met with civilian and military officials in Kurdistan, Libya, Jordan, Israel, Egypt, and Yemen. They shared many of the same international defense priorities as the United States. We acknowledged our differences, but we worked from where we found common ground.
The need to remove Col. Qaddafi should be self-evident.
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.
Decisions concerning covert actions are not often easily reached.
Libya is a huge disaster.
Where the West has intervened in African domestic affairs, such as it did in Libya 2011, the country became a cradle of extremism that exports weapons, jihadists, and ideology to the rest of Africa, the Middle East, and Europe.
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.
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.
The Islamic State has proven that terrorists can seize and deploy modern military equipment on lesser-armed opponents.
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.
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.
Once the U.S. and NATO walked away from Libya, a chaotic, lawless state in the soft underbelly of Europe arose.
I'm not OK with clergy, students, and those of different opinions chanting and swearing, but it is their constitutional right.
Sports are trivial compared to matters of war and peace, but some parallels apply.
I've got a lot of respect for Mike Hayden.
A wounded Qaddafi still in power would be an ongoing threat and menace to the rest of the world.
World leaders need to approach the problems in the Middle East and northern Africa with imaginative ideas such as those that created the E.U.
The West needs leaders with the courage and the will to fight the scourge of radical Islam.
Not once during Obama's tenure did the country achieve an annual 3 percent rate of economic growth.
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.
The Panetta/Petraeus combo is a powerful tandem. I've seen both of them up close and personal at the CIA and in Iraq.
It seems that whenever America faced a challenge, it faced it and overcame it.
Nobody will ever agree with everything everyone says, especially once an issue or speaker becomes politically charged. But as tolerant and civilized Americans, we should at least have the decency to hear them out.
Boko Haram, by itself, has destroyed large areas in Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, and Niger.
The U.S. cannot survive another four years of the Barack Obama-Hillary Clinton regime.
The U.S. must remember - as the Gadhafi loyalists have and Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Bangladesh are now realizing - that it cannot get into bed with groups affiliated with the jihadist movement.
Choices abound in the free market. Choice creates real and immediate accountability.
Any customer of government - whether it's with education, taxes, housing, or health care - understands the frustrations when they have a bad experience. They're stuck and can't go anywhere else.
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.
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.
Choosing to arm and train the Islamist opposition against dictator Moammar Gadhafi unleashed its most ruthless terrorist elements.
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.
Gadhafi opponents included many 'good guys,' but they never received the support necessary to govern a new Libya after he was gone.
