Robert Gates said...

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

the only way I could get significant new or additional equipment to commanders in the field in weeks or months--not year...

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

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