Robert Gates: “The United States spent 45 years working very hard to avoid a military confrontation with Russia. I see no reason to…”

I think part of the problem is that at the end of the Cold War, we were affected by triumphalism or hubris, whatever you want to call it.

we always discover . . . that we [go] too far in cutting

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.