Last week, I attended a symposium that clarified for me exactly why Iran is the single greatest existential threat to the United States and the free world today. The symposium panel consisted not of some off-the-wall Cassandras, but rather of some the soberest most serious thinkers in the field of national security.  Among them were: Lt. General (ret.) Thomas McInerney, Air Force; member of the Iran Policy Committee; Brigadier General (ret.) Ken Chrosniak, U.S. Army War College, Bronze Star recipient; Reza Kahlili, Ex-CIA spy in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards; author of the award-winning book A Time To Betray; Instructor at the Joint Counterintelligence Training Academy of the Dept. of Defense; Lt. Col. (ret.) Tony Shaffer, U.S. Army, Bronze Star recipient and Senior Intelligence Officer in the Defense Intelligence Agency; Clare Lopez, strategic policy and intelligence expert on national defense, Islam, Iran, and counterterrorism issues. I put these names up front to...(Read Full Post)