Robert Gates said...

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

I think there ought to be a firm deadline at 6 months. I think the Iranians are world-class experts in slow-rolling thei...

This is a Department that principally plans for war. It is not organized to wage war, and that is what I am trying to fi...

So there will be boots on the ground if there is to be any hope of success in the strategy.