Speaker. keeping you safe depends upon the men and women who are willing to put themselves on the front line for our security. We do remain the strongest country in the world militarily and economically. Unfortunately. though. I cannot report that the world is growing any calmer or more stable or more secure. Ideological extremism is spreading across the globe and. most alarmingly. is manifested in ISIS twisted Islamic ideology. In the face of the barbaric onslaught in the Middle East. compounded by the Syrian dictators war of attrition. Europe is now contending with its worst refugee crisis since World War II. and the Continents leadership seems illequipped to understand their own plight. Not long ago. Mr.