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