Robert Gates actually said...

I think that, here again, there may be some parallels with Iraq.

All of our combat forces are to be out by the end of August 2010, and all forces out by the end of 2011.

I have felt, ever since I got this job, that we have been too focused on the central government in Kabul.

We want to communicate to the Afghans this is not an open-ended commitment on the part of the American people and our allies around the worl...