Robert Gates said...

turbulent, unstable, and unpredictable times have recurred to challenge U.S. leaders regularly since World War II

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

The President does not like having countervailing opinions, he does not like being disagreed with.

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...