Robert Gates: “The July 2011 date is the date on which we begin to transfer authority and responsibility to Afghan security forces.”

the real problem with United States policy in the Middle East is the lack of a clear strategy.

No more continuing resolutions.

I think the president is — based on what I read — is getting the sense that, as he put it, that Putin is 'tapping' him along.

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