Robert Gates said...

Secretary Gates told President Bush that Guantanamo was a national security liability and advised him to close it down.

we've lost our ability to prioritize, to make hard decisions, to do tough analysis, to make trades.

Their ambitions are to have a dominant role at least in the Middle East to continue their pattern of terrorism directly ...

The policymakers who will follow us . . . will not have the same historical, personal and, indeed, emotional ties to Eur...