Michael G. Mullen: “Our review will be based on strategy and risks, not simply budgetary math.”

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.

Our fellow citizens are not the enemy and must never become so.

I'm more afraid of the red ink than the red menace.

They are not battle spaces to be dominated and must never become so.