To our great shame, our political leaders have created the world in which we now live.

It is a world where terrorism is exported globally. Where we cannot feel safe within our own borders.

It is a world where an Iranian Foreign Minister, a man who undoubtedly has American blood on his hands, is seen as a credible critic of senate Republicans.

It is a world where our allies do not trust us and for good reason. Multiple good reasons.

We live in a world where most of our foreign policy leaders have never had to watch good men and women die due to their own terrible decision making.

Let's be clear for a moment, American foreign policy should be designed and implemented to further American interests and values. It should not be crafted to gain the least-bad outcome so as to allow American attention to be focused elsewhere.

10,000 people died in Nigeria last year, hundreds of thousands have died in Syria over the past four years, and a rising Islamic caliphate is murdering, torturing, enslaving, and raping the innocent in the most barbaric fashion imaginable across Iraq and Syria. This should compel us to reconsider what can and should be done. Every one of these bad actors means us ill will, so we should evaluate the threat to our citizens, our interests, and our values.

While our leaders dither, the threat against the homeland only grows.

We must face reality.

The truth is that the structure of our government does not lend itself to dealing with our new reality. For instance, having military combatant commands that aren't aligned with corresponding State Department under-secretariats inhibits our ability to leverage the instruments of national power.

Our foreign policy institutions lack the capability and the capacity to operate in, and with, failed and failing states and non-state actors.

Titles 10, 22, and 50 of the US Code are anachronisms of a world long dead. They must be rewritten to allow us to meet threats that exist as they are now and how they are likely to evolve. I'm not saying that we must compromise our fourth amendment protections as Americans; far from it in fact. But we have to face the facts that the threats are real and the costs of ignoring them grow by the day.

We must reverse the systematic de-construction of our military.

Security Cooperation and Security Force Assistance are two programs that our government can push immediately to help besieged allies. Aligning the efforts of State and Defense, including structural reorganization, are desperately needed reforms.

We must develop a cyber command worthy of the name and clearly outline what does, and does not, constitute an attack and what our response is to be. This endeavor will be hard and require a great deal of effort. The unacceptable alternative is continuing to use a pre-existing infrastructure to spy on Americans because it only requires the movement of a mouse.

The time for consideration and action is now. Right now. The world is suffering while we dither. The threat to the American people is only growing. By the time there is popular support for much needed reforms, it will already be too late. True leaders need to step forward and take charge because President Obama and his ideological supporters seem both unwilling and unable.

There is really only one impediment to launching the effort to remake American national security and foreign policy. We must defeat the Democrats and, more importantly, forever discredit their view of foreign policy. Without a resounding victory in November, none of this is possible.

Democrats are endangering my family and yours, not just our allies. If you think this statement is hyperbolic, I would only ask you to watch the news between now and November, then tell me I'm wrong.