Admiral Michael Mullen: “It is my personal belief that allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly would be the right thing to do.”

the number one national security threat facing our country was Congress' inability to spend within its means.

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.

Their legacy is not in their death. It is ultimately not in their sacrifice. It is in the sunrises and sunsets, the birthdays and the holidays, the first dates, and the first-borns, all the cherished moments they have made possible for the…