...ichael Hastings, the military had taken advantage of the President’s inexperience to gain approval for a troop surge in Afghanistan. Obama’s decision to intervene in Libya went against the position of Defense Secretary Robert Gates. At the outset, the administration was careful to continue mentioning regime change and tried its best to maintain the position of a desire to protect civilians. It was clear from the start, though, that the interventi...
...come the key issue in US politics in the years to come. Our prognosis is not good. The Pentagon’s $700 billion-plus budget is bloated with wasteful handouts to contractors, despite the best efforts of Defense Secretary Robert Gates to impose discipline. Members of both parties pay only lip service to tax reform. Worst of all, the biggest drivers of the debt—entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, which account for roughly half of...
...r against drugs. After the recent deaths of U.S. consular worker Lesley A. Enriquez and her husband, Arthur H. Redelf, the White House sent the high-profile team of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to Mexico City in order to revamp cooperation between the two countries. The result was an extension of the Merida Initiative to the tune of $331 million....
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