Michael G. Mullen: “The challenges we face in Afghanistan and Pakistan are great, and our interests there are significant.”

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

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.

I'm more afraid of the red ink than the red menace.

It sickened me yesterday to see security personnel, including members of the National Guard forcibly and violently clearing the path through Lafayette Square to accommodate the President's visit outside St. John's Church.