Consumer accountability drives quality and efficiency.
Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.
Hard work, years of sacrifice, and dedication are necessary to succeed in the real world. Snowden's most notable accomplishment was lying about his military service, his experience, and education to procure a job with the NSA in the first place.
Good governance requires working toward common ground. It isn't easy.
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.
Choices abound in the free market. Choice creates real and immediate accountability.
I've got a lot of respect for Mike Hayden.
The Kurds in Iraq just don't have enough military equipment - they also need humanitarian relief.
Where the West has intervened in African domestic affairs, such as it did in Libya 2011, the country became a cradle of extremism that exports weapons, jihadists, and ideology to the rest of Africa, the Middle East, and Europe.
The Eurozone allows for the largely unimpeded movement of people, goods, services, and capital across borders. It has also resulted in unprecedented cooperation on crime, security, and finance among its members.
I'm not OK with clergy, students, and those of different opinions chanting and swearing, but it is their constitutional right.
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.
ISIS filled the vacuum in Iraq and Syria created by a lack of effective governance.
Sports are trivial compared to matters of war and peace, but some parallels apply.
Clinton appears to be the sole holdout in the Obama administration in understanding the catastrophe caused by its foreign policy in Libya.
Obama's 'reset' with Russia and 'pivot' to Asia never materialized.
The U.S. must remember - as the Gadhafi loyalists have and Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Bangladesh are now realizing - that it cannot get into bed with groups affiliated with the jihadist movement.
Not once during Obama's tenure did the country achieve an annual 3 percent rate of economic growth.
It seems that whenever America faced a challenge, it faced it and overcame it.
The Panetta/Petraeus combo is a powerful tandem. I've seen both of them up close and personal at the CIA and in Iraq.
