Showing posts with label robert gates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label robert gates. Show all posts
Obama Presents Gates Medal of Freedom June 30 Video
Diposkan oleh Pengetahuan dan Pengalaman on Thursday, June 30, 2011
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Robert Gates Final News Conference June 16
Diposkan oleh Pengetahuan dan Pengalaman on Thursday, June 16, 2011
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Gates Blasts NATO Penny Pinching
Diposkan oleh Pengetahuan dan Pengalaman on Friday, June 10, 2011
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Obama Mulling Earlier Withdrawal from Afghanistan
Diposkan oleh Pengetahuan dan Pengalaman on Monday, June 6, 2011
Obama meets with his national security team today on Afghanistan and Pakistan. He is mulling an earlier withdrawal from Afghanistan. Exiting Defense Secretary Robert Gates warns against withdrawing too soon-- what is too soon? I respect Gates, but I hope Obama chooses to bring most of the troops home, the sooner the better. The troop drawdown is expected to begin in July.
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President Obama’s national security team is contemplating troop reductions in Afghanistan that would be steeper than those discussed even a few weeks ago, with some officials arguing that such a change is justified by the rising cost of the war and the death of Osama bin Laden, which they called new “strategic considerations.”
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But the latest strategy review is about far more than how many troops to take out in July, Mr. Gates and other senior officials said over the weekend. It is also about setting a final date by which all of the 30,000 surge troops will be withdrawn from Afghanistan.
A separate timetable would dictate the departure of all foreign troops by 2014, including about 70,000 troops who were there before the surge, as agreed to by NATO and the Afghan government.Read the rest at NYT
Gates Headed Lakefront to Write Books
Diposkan oleh Pengetahuan dan Pengalaman on Wednesday, June 1, 2011
After serving eight presidents, Defense Secretary Robert Gates is winding down. Gates says he's not going to be doing much opinion TV. Instead, he's going to write books and get a life:
“I think one of the reasons it’s probably time for me to leave is that sometimes too much experience can get in the way, and you can get too cautious,” Gates told POLITICO as he flew over his native Kansas on the first leg of an overseas farewell tour. “It may … be making me more cautious that I ought to be.”
Gates, a white-haired veteran of generations of Washington power struggles, was the skeptic in two big internal battles ahead of his June 30 retirement: He opposed intervening in Libya, and strongly questioned intelligence behind a risky helicopter raid to kill Osama bin Laden.
Now, the 67-year-old is heading back to his beloved lakefront home in the other Washington, north of Seattle. Gates said he plans to write two books – one a memoir (to be published after 2012), and the other a partly humorous guide to transforming huge public institutions. But he vows that for now, he won’t be popping off. Read the whole thing at Politico