Robert Gates said...

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...

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

By continuing to repeat that the U.S. will not put boots on the ground, the President, in effect, traps himself.

As I sat there I thought, the president doesn't trust his commander, can't stand Karzai, doesn't believe it his own stra...