Michael G. Mullen: “DOD strongly supports civilian increases in Afghanistan as a critical element of our strategy and as an essential…”

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.

I urge you to support and encourage the expansion and deepening of these channels of communication with Russia to enhance the security of the American people and our allies.

A Nation with our current levels of unsustainable debt cannot hope to sustain for very long its superiority from a military perspective or its influence in world affairs.

The appeal is for a shift in national policy to the growth of the private, productive economy as our all-out, primary priority.