Thomas A. Garrett: “These promises of fairness manifest themselves in the uniform distribution of poverty and suffering.”

I believe to my very core that the best of the collective is achieved by empowering the individual.

I will consider myself a historian and some lessons are written large on the pages of history, if we are only willing to listen.

Perhaps have we considered a paradigm wherein we tie aid and development to Afghanistan to eradication efforts?

I believe, paraphrasing, there are threats greater than an Islamist insurgency that's nationalist in its nature.