Robert Gates actually said...

If you cut the defense budget by 10 percent, which would be catastrophic in terms of force structure, that's $55 billion out of a $1.4 trill...

And sometimes, they send people to spy on us. And they're our close allies.

Frankly, I think that we have often not done a very good job of listening to President Karzai.

Most governments lie to each other. That's the way business gets done.