Robert Gates said...

As I sat there I thought, the president doesn't trust his commander, can't stand Karzai, doesn't believe it his own stra...

Without proper and predictable funding, no amount of reform or clever reorganization will provide America with a militar...

We want everything that's possible, and a lot of things that aren't possible, in a new system.

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