By Steve Clemons

(Peter Bergen is a Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation). The question about more boots on the ground is a relatively easy one to answer.

(Greg Djerejian is a financial services professional and publishes the popular blog The Belgravia Dispatch) I agree with almost everything Peter writes below (particularly his “second” mistake, the clever subtlety he flags in his “third mistake”, and then too his last paragraph-to which I’d add the need to effectively engage with Syria too).

(Peter Bergen is a Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation). I wanted to respond to the idea that somehow we are making the same mistake in Afghanistan that the Soviets did. This is a real misreading of history. The Soviets killed at least 1.

(Alistair Millar is the Director of the Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation.

(Greg Djerejian is a financial services professional and publishes the popular blog The Belgravia Dispatch) In regards to Stephanie’s answer to the second prompt, she writes: It is time to put the myth of the pre-9/11 mindset to rest… with which I think I mostly concur–save with some reservations about the level of attention both…

(Stephanie Kaplan is a Visiting Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center). I agree with Matt that the notion that U.S. counterterrorism policy is largely under the purview of the military is a false one. It relates, I think, to the partisan charge that the Democrats possess a “pre-9/11 mindset” when it comes to counterterrorism….

(Matthew Levitt is a Senior fellow and Director of the Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy).

It seems that counter-terrorism responsibility has fallen mainly under the purview of the military.