prompted by a growing concern, deeply held, about the future of the country's national security.

crumbling under an administration blinded by ideology and a callous indifference to the realities of the world around it.

We are on the wrong track, and we need a fundamental change,

have spent their lives working to erect the stature and posture of the U.S. as a leader in the world ... and we simply see that edifice crumbling.