Robert Gates actually said...

It is to reverse the momentum of the Taliban. It is to deny them control of territory in Afghanistan.

Gates outlines the strategy to counter the Taliban's influence in Afghanistan.

12/02/2009

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the cost in treasure and in the blood of our young men and women is always far higher than if we had remained strong and prepared all along

the role of Congress itself.

we always discover . . . that we [go] too far in cutting

the way the things ought to operate is that if there is a sense on the Hill, a majority view, that the budget needs to be cut to reduce the ...