“The people who give us, the member of Congress, these briefs on what to do, on how to solve these big problems, they far too often have something to gain—have profits in the game—from viewing these problems through a purely military lens. There are often military costs to problems, but POMED gives a much more comprehensive, a much more holistic view of the problem and the solution. And all of us—and certainly Congress—are better off for it.”

“POMED – as all of you know very well – continues to play a hugely important role in focusing all of us on a central reality in the Middle East, and that is that at the core of much of the disorder that all of us see today are some very important deficits, deficits of freedom, of opportunity, and dignity.”