Why the reduction when the challenge is greater?
the funding seems to be incongruent with the threat.
we need to address the factors that perpetuate the narcotics trade, namely poverty and lack of economic opportunity.
I'm a very simple man from the Texas Panhandle and I have to think in very simple terms as to how we address this problem.
I don't understand the lack of effort on the front end to undermine the gunrunning into Mexico, which would be in our own interests at the e...
Part of our international assistance package should be encouraging and helping those countries to develop adequate programs at home.
It is imperative that the United States and other traditional consumers like Western Europe reduce demand.
I would agree with that, also suggest that there be efforts to establish a political consensus around reinstating the assault weapons ban.
One of my concerns is that we always think, for example, of Central America as a transit point, and now increasingly it seems to be a produc...
The dimensions of the citizen security crisis in Central America cannot be understated.
Let me ask--and I'll open this to anyone on the panel--when does the citizen security threat become a national security threat?