Robert Gates said...

Without proper and predictable funding, no amount of reform or clever reorganization will provide America with the milit...

Their ambitions are to have a dominant role at least in the Middle East to continue their pattern of terrorism directly ...

So there will be boots on the ground if there is to be any hope of success in the strategy.

Secretary Gates told President Bush that Guantanamo was a national security liability and advised him to close it down.