Bing West, Justin T. Johnson, Soeren Kern and Dr. Ilan Berman

BING WEST, Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, served in USMC Force Recon:

• Obama’s Iraq policy continues to fail
• Efforts made by the Baghdad government and Peshmerga on trying to retake Mosul
• Syrian cease-fire status
• Hopes that Afghanistan won’t end up like Iraq due to a continued presence of US forces
• The Clinton legacy in Libya

JUSTIN T. JOHNSON, Senior Policy Analyst for Defense Budgeting Policy at the Heritage Foundation:

• Shortfalls in our defense capabilities
• How current US military spending stacks up historically
• Dangers of measuring defense spending relative to other nations
• The Heritage Foundation's "Blueprint for Balance"

SOEREN KERN, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute:

• Germany’s social transformation as a result of the Syrian migrant crisis
• Sexual assault tradition of “taharrush”
• 130,000 migrants have disappeared, possibly upwards of 500,000 in Germany
• EU and Turkey’s agreement on refugees

Dr. ILAN BERMAN, Vice President of the American Foreign Policy Council:

• The JCPOA hangover
• Iranian election a show of confidence for current regime in Tehran
• IRGC one of the principal beneficiaries of nuclear deal
• IAEA having less oversight on Iranian nuclear program than prior to Obama’s deal

(PART TWO)

• Tehran’s “Manifest Destiny” fast becoming reality due to massive economic gains from nuclear deal
• Iran’s goals concerning Central Asia and the Caucuses having oil and Shanghai Cooperation Organization membership in mind
• China, Russia, and Iran’s “guiding hand” in Latin American politics
• Obama Administration to take new Israel/Palestine peace terms to the UN Security Council