Kiron Skinner, Amb. Eric Edelman, Rep. Mark Meadows, Gordon Chang

KIRON SKINNER, Hoover Institution

"We have helped unleash Al-Qaeda, its affiliates, and great terror across the Middle East simply because we believe withdrawing is the only strategy available to the United States"

• What history has shown about withdrawing from wars
• The national security risk of only focusing on "core Al-Qaeda"
• The theme of '"distorted jihad" in Syria, Iraq, Palestine, and Iran
• Comparing the Reagan and Obama foreign policy doctrines

ERIC EDELMAN, former US Ambassador to Turkey

• Prospects for Kurdish independence- what is Turkey's position?
• The implications of Turkey's upcoming election
• Is Turkey a reliable ally for the United States?

Rep. MARK MEADOWS, of North Carolina's 11th Congressional District

• Secretary Kerry's trip to Baghdad and the possibility of a U.S./Iran alliance to quell sectarian violence
• The Hezbollah International Financing Prevention Act being brought forward in Congress
• Should the U.S. accept the Fatah/Hamas unity government in Palestine as an ally?
• Lois Lerner, the IRS, and the so-called "missing emails"

GORDON CHANG, Forbes.com columnist

• Chinese plans to export untested nuclear power plant designs to countries such as Pakistan
• Concerns about the lack of communication between Chinese and French regulators as China constructs the first of a new European-designed nuclear power plant
• Beijing's white paper retracting Hong Kong's autonomy and the subsequent surge of pro-democracy activism in Hong Kong
• The prospects that Modi's India will economically outperform China