Michael G. Mullen: “The President's new strategy still recognizes the criticality of a broadbased approach to regional problems.”

You know, or you should, that our national debt has reached a peacetime record, heading for territory where other nations have spiraled into default or into the loss of sovereignty as creditors use their leverage to dictate terms.

Instead of talking about the possibility of rewarding Pakistan with a nuclear deal, we should be enforcing the consequences for Pakistan's bad behavior.

This is a moment when more investment in diplomacy and development is needed, not less.

They are not battle spaces to be dominated and must never become so.