Robert Gates: “I respectfully disagree with Democratic Senator Harry Reid that the war is lost.”

My staff and I have learned that it was nearly impossible to get accurate information and answers to questions such as, 'How much money did you spend?' and, 'How many people do you have?'

the real problem with United States policy in the Middle East is the lack of a clear strategy.

I think it doesn't make strategic sense.

I think the president is — based on what I read — is getting the sense that, as he put it, that Putin is 'tapping' him along.