I'm A Professor Of National Security Studies,

Thank God We're Going To Try To Continue And Effectively Defend Our Frontiers With The Border Patrol, With The Customs Department, With The Coast Guard, With The Armed Forces.

The Solution To Our Drug Problem Is Not In Incarceration.

When I Get A Very Generous Introduction Like That I Explain That I'm Emotionally Moved, But On The Other Hand I'm Irish And The Irish Are Very Emotionally Moved. My Mother Is Irish And She Cries During Beer Commercials.

At The End Of The Day...if Your Army Won't Fight, It's Because They Don't Trust Their Incompetent, Corrupt Generals, They Don't Trust Each Other. This Is An Enduring Civil War Between The Shia, The Sunni, And The Kurds. So I Don't Think We've Got Any Options And We'd Be Ill-advised To Start Bombing Where We Really Can't Sort Out The Combatants Or Understand Where The Civilian Population Is.

We Say In A Democracy That Good Ideas Will Drive Out Bad Ones, So If The Good Ones Aren't There, We're Left With The Bad Ones