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the cabinet, like former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, against her former Democratic Senate colleague

y own Internet meme. A liberal icon, Clinton nonetheless has tended to side with more hawkish members of the cabinet, like former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, against her former Democratic Senate colleague Joe Biden. Insiders say Clinton remains outside the president's inner-most circle and has at times

s wide in Kurdistan, to Syria via the opposition forces, Lebanon in the future and Tunisia, not to mention Turkish presence in Central Asia and the Balkans. Moreover, it will not be easy to compete with the role that the Gulf Cooperation Council states have started to play after they learned how to use

ies the United States=has faced over the past 25 years has been in any way because its military =as too small or weak. As then-Secretary of Defense Robert Gates note= in a 2007 lecture, "One of the most important lessons of the wars=in Iraq and Afghanistan is that military success is not sufficient to win.=E

all or weak. As then-Secretary of Defense Robert Gates note= in a 2007 lecture, "One of the most importa

a=ded a penny to the national debt) when we're still paying for Korea an= Vietnam and Grenada and Panama and the first Gulf War and Somalia and the=Balkans and on and on. Estimates of just how much of our national de=t payments are from past military spending vary wildly. In 2007, economist=Robert Higgs

. willingness to stand with allies against an increasingly assertive China. Interestingly, he also cited the recent memoir former defense secretary Robert Gates to question whether U.S. aversion to conflict means shaky commitments in what is an increasingly risky region. Even at home, 70 percent of American

he recent memoir former defense secretary Robert Gates to question whether U.S. aversion to conflict me

the disengagement failed. The Clinton administration tried to outsource Yugoslavia to the Europeans in the 1990s and was ultimately pulled into the Balkans. George W. Bush tried to conduct foreign policy around and over the heads of "Old Europe"; the experience was not a success. President Obama has si

OVERSIGHT_031882 --- PAGE BREAK --- 8 Article 3. The Financial Times Why Syria will get away with it Gideon Rachman June 13 2011 -- late last week, Robert Gates, the US defence secretary, launched an offensive of his own. In a speech in Brussels, he dismissed most of America's European allies as a useless bun

e to protect the Kurds and the Shia in Iraq in 1991, over the Rwandan genocide of 1994 and over the many years of dithering as lives were lost in the Balkans. But a series of apparently successful interventions - Bosnia, Kosovo, East Timor, Sierra Leone - gradually strengthened the belief that western mili