In the first Democratic presidential primary, every single person on the stage believed that further restrictions on the inalienable, constitutionally-protected rights of law-abiding American citizens is the only acceptable solution to violent crime.
“There was no meaningful al Qaeda presence in Afghanistan when Barack Obama took office. There will likely be al Qaeda strategic bases there when he leaves. That is failure by any standard.” — Prof. Frederick Kagan of the American Enterprise Institute, formerly a professor of military history at West Point.
