You Go, Gates!

Post by **93henfan** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 4:47 pm

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, speaking today to the Corps of Cadets at West Point, remarked:

"In my opinion, any future Defense Secretary who advises the President to again send a big American land army into Asia or into the Middle East or Africa should have his head examined."

youngterrier · Post by **youngterrier** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 4:49 pm

Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq. We should have learned by now

Post by **Grizalltheway** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 4:51 pm

Make it retroactive and change "head examined" to "head removed".

Post by **93henfan** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 4:52 pm

Grizalltheway wrote:Make it retroactive and change "head examined" to "head removed".

You really want Biden as President?

Skjellyfetti · Post by **Skjellyfetti** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 5:02 pm

Damn. Nice shot at Rumsfeld as he makes the rounds on his memoir tour.

BDKJMU · Post by **BDKJMU** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 5:15 pm

Skjellyfetti wrote:Damn. Nice shot at Rumsfeld as he makes the rounds on his memoir tour.

Gates said big American land army. The knock on Rummy is that it was a small American land army into Iraq, ie not enough troops.

houndawg · Post by **houndawg** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 5:24 pm

BDKJMU wrote:
Skjellyfetti wrote:Damn. Nice shot at Rumsfeld as he makes the rounds on his memoir tour.
Gates said big American land army. The knock on Rummy is that it was a small American land army into Iraq, ie not enough troops.

Iraqi oil was going to pay for the whole thing.

Skjellyfetti · Post by **Skjellyfetti** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 5:28 pm

BDKJMU wrote:
Gates said big American land army. The knock on Rummy is that it was a small American land army into Iraq, ie not enough troops.

So you don't believe he was talking about Iraq in that quote?

Yes. Rumsfeld wanted to send in a relatively small, fast land army. But, it was still a DAMN BIG army (150,000 is fucking pretty fucking huge unless you're talking about the "several hundred thousand" recommended by Shinseki and others).

Post by **93henfan** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 5:50 pm

Skjellyfetti wrote:
BDKJMU wrote:
Gates said big American land army. The knock on Rummy is that it was a small American land army into Iraq, ie not enough troops.

So you don't believe he was talking about Iraq in that quote?

Yes. Rumsfeld wanted to send in a relatively small, fast land army. But, it was still a DAMN BIG army (150,000 is fucking pretty fucking huge unless you're talking about the "several hundred thousand" recommended by Shinseki and others).

Yes Sk, that's what I took him to mean as well. I think Gates would prefer diplomacy followed by Tomahawks followed by SpecOps/Marine Expeditionary Force if necessary. It's a helluva lot cheaper that way.

Post by **TwinTownBisonFan** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 5:56 pm

don't start a land war in Asia?

not exactly a new sentiment...

next he'll say "never do battle against a Sicilian when death is on the line"...

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