Michael G. Mullen: “For too long in Pakistan, as many of you know, it's been year-to-year, and so that 5-year commitment is really…”

A Nation with our current levels of unsustainable debt cannot hope to sustain for very long its superiority from a military perspective or its influence in world affairs.

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

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

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