Admiral Michael Mullen: “The biggest threat to our national security is our deficit.”

I think the biggest threat we have to our national security is our debt.

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

I remain concerned that the pace of current operations prevents our forces from training across the entire range of operations and erodes our readiness to counter future threats.

The line of questioning approached here for those of us in the military that we would consider for a second not doing anything we possibly could just stirs us to our bones because that's not who we are. We don't leave anybody behind.