Admiral Michael Mullen: “The likelihood that NATO could respond in a situation like that was absolutely zero.”

The national debt's the number-one security threat of the United States of America.

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

The direction you get from a President in a situation like that is 'Do everything you can.' It's all the guidance that you need.