Just eight days before Hamas’ brutal invasion of Israel which resulted in 1200 Israelis butchered and 250 kidnapped to Gaza, U.S. national security advisor Jake Sullivan ignorantly stated, “The Middle East region is quieter today than it has been in two decades now.” Had Sullivan been speaking during the Trump years, there may have been some truth to that statement but since the Biden/Harris administration entered office, the world has seen multiple wars (including in the Middle East between Israel and Iran and its proxies and in Europe for the first time since World War 2); global insecurity resembling that of earlier world wars; a new axis of evil in the form of Russia-China-Iran-North Korea; and our military being downgraded due to lack of funds, a focus on woke policies that have weakened its personnel and priorities, underperforming recruitment numbers, and policies of appeasement of our enemies. Couple this with three and a half years of wide open borders through which terrorists have entered the country and America is facing very dangerous security problems requiring immense changes if we are to remain a safe and secure superpower that projects strength in order to keep peace. From Europe and the Middle East to Southeast Asia and the Sahel region of Africa, America’s enemies are on the march. Join of for a discussion of the national security challenges that we face and what should be done to address these challenges with the brilliant and insightful Danielle Pletka, foreign policy expert with the American Enterprise Institute.

About our speaker: Danielle Pletka is a distinguished senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where she focuses on the Middle East, terrorism, and US foreign policy. Until January 2020, Ms. Pletka was the senior vice president of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies at AEI. She teaches US foreign policy toward the Middle East at Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service and is a political analyst for NBC News. Before joining AEI, Ms. Pletka was a senior professional staff member specializing in the Middle East and South Asia for the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Ms. Pletka has authored, coauthored, and coedited a variety of studies, monographs, and book chapters and is a regular guest on television including appearing frequently on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” as well as on CBS News, CNN, C-SPAN, and MSNBC. She has been published in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Hill, and Politico, among other outlets. Ms. Pletka is also the cohost, with AEI’s Marc Thiessen, of the podcast “What the Hell Is Going On? (Making Sense of the World).”