Admiral Michael Mullen: “The national debt's the number-one security threat of the United States of America.”

I think the biggest threat we have to our national security is our debt.

The line of questioning approached here for those of us in the military that we would consider for a second not doing anything we possibly could just stirs us to our bones because that's not who we are. We don't leave anybody behind.

The likelihood that NATO could respond in a situation like that was absolutely zero.

The national debt was the greatest threat to the national security of the United States.