Robert Gates said...

I expect to continue to conduct training, advising, and assisting activities and joint counterterrorism operations.

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

There's absolutely no way we can maintain a credible deterrent and reduce the number of weapons in our stockpile without...

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