Terror threats to the U.S. homeland have reached unprecedented levels.
From Mike McCaul
Violent extremism is going viral, but our response to it is moving at bureaucratic, sluggish speed.
It is time for President Obama to admit that - in this new age of peer-to-peer terror - we need a real strategy to combat radicalization at home and destroy extremist safe havens abroad.
We think there should be a better countering-violent-extremism effort, that there should be a lead agency tasked to handle that.
When you project weakness throughout the world, and you have a failed foreign policy, this is what you get. And now we have chaos in the Middle East, have ISIS taking over Iraq, Syria, Northern Africa, Egypt.
I'm very disturbed about the uptick in shootings and violence at our military installations across the nation.
We need to look at how we can better fortify our force protection at military installations. But also, how can we deal with these mental health issues with our returning veterans? And our suicide rate in the military is twice as high as the average population.
We do a very good job at fixing broken bodies but not such a great job at healing broken minds with our returning veterans.
I think a lot of people don't realize that our military that defends our freedoms abroad, when they come home to the military base, are not allowed to carry weapons.
We're seeing Iran now through the Shia militias in Iraq. We're seeing Iran in Syria; we know the Quds Force is in there.
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