Robert Gates said...

This is a Department that principally plans for war. It is not organized to wage war, and that is what I am trying to fi...

By continuing to repeat that the U.S. will not put boots on the ground, the President, in effect, traps himself.

Well, fundamentally, and I'm not kidding, it can be found within the two square miles that encompass the Capitol buildin...

the role of Congress itself.