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Pete Hoekstra

Profession : Politician

Birth : October 30, 1953

The Islamic State has proven that terrorists can seize and deploy modern military equipment on lesser-armed opponents.

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Islamic fundamentalists in dark areas of Libya rifled through leftover stockpiles of conventional, chemical, and biological munitions from Muammar Gaddafi's rule. Who knows where they are now?

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The U.S. faces a very dangerous sprint by outlaws to gather the deadliest weapons and technology on the planet, something we always thought possible but hoped would never occur.

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Succeeding against an army of strawmen might feel good as a speech, but in reality, the world is filled with extraordinarily difficult challenges and very real consequences as a result of how we face them.

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The U.S. might have diminished al-Qaeda's capabilities in the border region of Pakistan and Afghanistan, but it has not diminished the threat from radical Islamist terrorists as a whole.

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Obama's 'reset' with Russia and 'pivot' to Asia never materialized.

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America, at its core, is a country of strong and resilient people who are prepared to confront the challenges posed by those who seek to do us harm.

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Obama sought a strategy of accommodating our enemies, even if they weren't so willing to accommodate us.

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The fact is that no foreign-policy doctrine is perfect.

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An issue that really concerned me when I was on the House Intelligence Committee was the quality of analysis.

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After the heavily politicized 2007 Iran NIE, many of us in Congress found it hard to take some intelligence analysis at face value.

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A real possibility exists that we will be forced to confront, contain, and ultimately defeat radicalism and al-Qaeda alone, or at least with far fewer allies in the region than we had before.

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The Panetta/Petraeus combo is a powerful tandem. I've seen both of them up close and personal at the CIA and in Iraq.

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The need to remove Col. Qaddafi should be self-evident.

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A wounded Qaddafi still in power would be an ongoing threat and menace to the rest of the world.

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America has historically met the challenges to its national security with decisive actions that defeated or, at a minimum, contained the threat.

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It seems that whenever America faced a challenge, it faced it and overcame it.

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Briefly after the 9/11 attacks, Republicans and Democrats were united in identifying the evil of the radical jihadists and fighting it.

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The world has devolved into a much more hardened and lethal place since that devastating September morning when Islamists assassinated nearly 3,000 Americans in the worst terror attack on U.S. soil.

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Both Presidents George Bush and Barack Obama pursued policies of regime change after 9/11 - with Bush removing al-Qaida's safe haven in Afghanistan and the sadistic anti-American dictator Saddam Hussein in Iraq - but Obama took it a step further and disregarded regional stability as a guiding factor for U.S. policy.

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