Staying With Robert Gates
June 30th, 2008
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Posted in: Iraq
Tags: "Global War on Terrorism", Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Cold War, Donald Rumsfeld, George W. Bush, Iran, Iraq Study Group, Iraq War, Moscow, NATO Expansion, People's Republic of China (PRC), Robert Gates, Secretary of Defense, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S.-Russia Strategic Ties, Washington, Withdrawal of American Troops
.!. President-elect Barack Obama’s decision to keep Robert Gates at the helm of the U.S. Department of Defense is an excellent choice. As a successor to the highly controversial (almost “radioactive”) Donald Rumsfeld, Gates brought a refreshing sense of professionalism and calculated detachment and distance from George W. Bush’s controversial defense policies. That was difficult, [...]