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

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.

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

the greatest national security threat America faced was our deficit and accumulated debt.

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