Hezbollah, the Party of God, is a Shia Muslim group committed to violent jihad.

It is time for us to realize we have run out of time.

I am pleased to see that President Obama and leaders around the world have called on Bashar al-Assad to step down.

one of the most influential forces in the entire world, the Arab Spring of last year, amazingly was an 83-year-old retired professor, former Harvard professor by the name of Eugene Sharp.

I strongly disagree. The U.S.

When we get bipartisan support we can conquer anything.

Since 2003, we have spent $8 billion training the Iraqi police, approximately $1 billion a year.

We have spent $63 billion in reconstructing Iraq. The past performance doesn't inspire great confidence.

The fact of the matter is when the surge was undertaken, it was designed to tamp down violence to give some breathing room for the Iraqis, Sunni, Shia, the Kurds to do political reconciliation.

In Iranian political and terror ethos, there is the near enemy, Israel. But there is also the far enemy, the United States of America.

I commend my colleague, Jeff Duncan, for his bipartisan resolution to include as an area of focus the Western Hemisphere in our Nation's counterterrorism efforts.