Speaking today at West Point, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said he thought the odds were low that the US would launch any future land wars of the same scale as the Iraq and Afghanistan occupations any time soon.
“At the same time, Gates’ speech did not appear to be anything resembling a call for a less aggressive foreign policy, which probably isn’t surprising at a time when he is pushing for record military budgets in both fiscal 2011 and 2012, and projecting even bigger budgets beyond that.
Instead, Gates said the US military should be constantly be intervening to prevent “festering problems from growing into full-blown crises,” suggesting that the impromptu attacks in Yemen and Somalia may become all the more common in the future.
And we wonder why this country is so Fugged up…Is he really serious? Don't they realize that our interference is why small skirmishes turn into large scale warfare in places we don't really want to go?
Hey Bob, time to go back to academia – you've obviously been underwater too long.
Robert Gates said he thought the odds were low that the US would launch any future land wars of the same scale as the Iraq and Afghanistan occupations any time soon.'
Sounds like Bibi has given the orders to the obama administration to start a war with Iran. The only thing you can trust from our government and the employees is they will lie all the time. War makes money for the war mongers so you can be sure we will be starting wars all the time.
What an interesting verb, Gates "doubts"…Of course, what else can they say when they never found a war they didn't like.