Robert Gates: “I strongly support continued funding for ALTBMD.”

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

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

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.

I think that it's still a problem for the Saudis.