Michael G. Mullen: “This New START agreement is important in itself and should also be viewed in a wider context.”

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.

Shutting out refugees would not only increase human suffering; it would also weaken the country and undermine its foreign policy.

You know, or you should, that public debt this large weighs heavily on economic growth, crowding out private investment and discouraging it through uncertainty.