Robert Gates: Realist or Neo-Con?
As the Senate prepares to take up the nomination of Robert M. Gates to be Defense Secretary, it remains unclear what the nation can expect from the former CIA director.Is he a neoconservative ideologue who was a super-hawk on the Soviet Union in the 1980s? Is he a political chameleon who changes colors depending on his environment? Or is he a "secret good guy" who will make the right moves to extricate the United States from the Iraq quagmire?
Gates's curious history suggests a variety of possible answers.
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Washington's conventional wisdom about George W. Bush's nomination of Robert M. Gates as Defense Secretary -- that it was a sign of more realisim on the Iraq War -- now appears to have been dead wrong. Bush's brusque rejection of the Baker-Hamilton troop drawdown idea and the disclosure that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was ousted as he sought a major revision of war strategy suggest that Bush may have recruited Gates as a new yes man. Suddenly, the Senate confirmation hearings on Gates take on new urgency. December 3, 2006
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posted by Kangaroo Brisbane Australia at 3:29 PM
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Oh, dear.
If Gates is a yes-man, to what will he be required to yes? To staying the course? Even Bush has clearly acknowledged that some form of new strategy is needed.
I think Rummy was fired not for his new ideas but for the faiure of the old ones. Honestly, however, it seems like nobody in the administration knows what they're going to do next in Iraq.
I have a headache.
Gidday cardozo, from Down Under, I have had a headache for the 6 years Georgie and his thugs have been in power, I think it was the failure of his old one to.
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