Robert Gates actually said...

I expect to continue to conduct training, advising, and assisting activities and joint counterterrorism operations.

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...

It is vitally important to protect the military modernization accounts.

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