"Food security is a global problem, with real and immediate effects on national security." — Will Hurd

The war against radical Salafi-Jihadism has been going on for several decades already and it will span many more and the U.S. must be preparing mentally for it.

ISIS takes a long-term approach to its apocalyptic war with West - we have to do the same.

Ultimately, taxpayers deserve a government that leverages technology to serve them, rather than one that deploys unsecure, decades old technology, and keeps sensitive information in non-encrypted databases.

In our globalized world, what happens in one nation has a very real impact on everybody else.