Seth Cropsey, Diana West, Mark Langfan, Jim Hanson

SETH CROPSEY, Senior Fellow and Director of the Hudson Institute’s Center for American Seapower, former deputy undersecretary of the U.S. Navy:

• China remains determined to claim sovereignty over international waters in the western Pacific
• Strategic importance of the U.S. alliance with Japan, Taiwan, and the Philippines
• Large-deck aircraft carrier an important interment in projecting American seapower
• U.S. Navy not prepared to counter Russian maritime buildup in the eastern Mediterranean

DIANA WEST, nationally syndicated columnist:

• Democratic presidential debate and the socialist mantra of certain candidates
• The “Sanders Effect” catching on in American society
• Knesset making it easier for Israeli citizens to obtain firearms for self-defense in light of recent violence
• Is Western Civilization dead?

MARK LANGFAN, United Nations Correspondent for Arutz Sheva, Senior Fellow at the London Center for Policy Research:

• Syrian civil war as a gateway for the Mullahs to gain access to the Mediterranean Sea
• Putin securing a Shiite crescent in the Middle East
• Historical analogy of Chamberlain’s Munich Treaty and the partition of Poland by Hitler and Stalin to that of the Iranian-Russian alliance in support of Assad
• Threats to Israel from Iran nuclear deal, a possible Third Intifada, the Muslim Brotherhood, and other terrorist groups perpetuated by Barack Obama?
• Yemen, Syria, Iraq, the Sinai all in flames with Jordan hanging on for dear life, all examples of the Obama Administration’s “arsonist” foreign policy

JIM HANSON, Executive Vice President at the Center for Security Policy, former operator in the U.S. Army Special Forces:

• Significance of Iranian economic sanctions relief in fueling the crisis in Syria
• Myth regarding Mullahs approving the nuclear deal
• Iran’s latest ballistic missile test
• Advice to democratic presidential nominees to defeat the Islamic State
• Reports of bombings in Ankara actually being Turkish government sponsored?