Robert Gates actually said...

The study reportedly concludes that lifting the ban will result in only minimal and isolated incidents of risk to the current war efforts.

Gates is referenced concerning the Pentagon's assessment of the risks associated with lifting the ban.

11/09/2010

More Robert Gates Quotes

I think we still have quite a bit of time, Chuck. I think there's still broad bipartisan support in the Congress for helping Ukraine.

I think the only thing I would've said is that a lot of this could've been done sooner.

The Chinese have played a lot of clips of what happened at the Capitol on January 6. And in their propaganda... have talked about how we’re ...

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.