Posted on 02/15/2010 2:02:05 PM PST by Big Bureaucracy
The war in Afghanistan is in its most important stage. American troops and NATO allies with Afghanistan forces tagging along are trying to smoke the Taliban out of their last strongholds. The surge is on in Afghanistan. Overseeing the operation is one of the most fascinating politicians in the history of the USA. I am not talking about Barack Obama. The person who gives us hope that the surge in Afghanistan will succeed is the Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
Bipartisanship is a hype word in Washington DC nowadays but very few people really served this great country in a nonpartisan way. Robert Gates is one of them – a true lion of the US government who was part of the administration of seven US Presidents...... President Obama announced he will count on Robert Gates as his Defense Secretary too. One of the specialties that Gates and his last President Boss share is their expertise in Arm Control. Barack Obama’s Columbia University senior thesis topic was the negotiations between the USSR and the USA on the nuclear disarmament. No copy of it exists in the library and President Obama said he had lost the one that he had owned. I wonder if in 1983 a senior thesis about nuclear disarmament crossed Robert Gates’s desk. Just kidding.
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