Lee Hamilton: “I believe the greatest current terrorist threat to the United States is from Islamist extremists.”

The President is the only one who can make those lines clear, and the President is the only one who could make it happen.

I think the Afghanistan experience should tell us not to ignore these countries as difficult as it may be.

The homeland security program ought not to be a revenue-sharing program.

I think American policy increasingly will focus on the question of: What pace do we withdraw from Afghanistan?