GRANT NEWSHAM, Senior Fellow, Center for Security Policy, Senior Research Fellow at Japan Forum for Strategic Studies, Contributor, Asia Times, @NewshamGrant

• Grant Newsham: Afghanistan has been left to the “tender mercy” of the ruthless Taliban

DAVID WURMSER, Director, Center for Security Policy’s Program on Global Anti-Semitism, former Middle East Advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney, retired, US Navy Reserves Lieutenant Commander

• David Wurmser: In the West, we operate under the pretense that differing groups like the Sunnis and Shias, or Iranian Shias Revolutionaries and the Al-Qaeda and the Sunni Islamist Jihadis will never cooperate - While, in reality, all of these groups see the U.S., and the West, as their primary enemy in the long run

AMB. KENNETH BLACKWELL, Former Ohio State Treasurer and Secretary of State, Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations' Human Rights Commission, Senior Fellow, Family Research Council, Author, "The Blueprint: Obama's Plan to Subvert the Constitution and Build an Imperial Presidency," @kenblackwell

• Amb. Kenneth Blackwell: H.R.4 is a blatant attempt to federalize our elections - To impose a one-size fits all scheme