Martin Dempsey: “I think Afghanistan is and will remain an anchor point for that pressure.”

ISIL would love nothing more than a large presence of United States forces on the ground in Iraq and Syria so that they could have a call to jihad.

Guantanamo does create a psychological scar on our national values. Whether it should or not, it does.

It is in our national security interest to counter ISIL, wherever we find them.

If we increase our supply of oil, especially into Eastern Europe, we will dent Russia's leverage on other countries and reduce the revenues that fund Russia's aggression.