Admiral Michael Mullen: “For me, personally, it comes down to integrity, theirs as individuals and ours as an institution.”

The Afghan Government needs to at some point in time appear to actually have some legitimacy in the eyes of its people.

It is my personal belief that allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly would be the right thing to do.

The likelihood that NATO could respond in a situation like that was absolutely zero.

the national debt was the greatest threat to the national security of the United States.