Michael G. Mullen: “The New START treaty achieves important and necessary balance between three critical aims.”

A fully-integrated foreign policy requires a fully-resourced approach. Our troops, Foreign Service officers and development experts work side-by-side in unprecedented and ever-increasing cooperation as they execute our strategic programs.

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.

The appeal is for a shift in national policy to the growth of the private, productive economy as our all-out, primary priority.

The most significant threat to our national security is our debt.