Bad choice to be SecDef. Pres Bush should quit listening to his father and pick his own people. Gates is not the person to be at DoD. Looks like the kumbyya folks are more entrenched then I thought at the White House.
You would expect that after seeing it fail with his father, and his own six years, that this Bush would have learned comity doesn't work with the Washington RATS especially when his first attempt at comity with Ted Kennedy on NCLB has been an abysmal failure that has only gotten him called a liar by his buddy Ted. Nope. He still wants to play nice with the people who hate him. I just don't understand.
I suppose this was foreshadowed by the sudden prominence of James Baker a few weeks ago. Starts coming together now. Doesn't make a bit of sense, but it does come together.
Putting his father's advisors back in power is only going to make a bad situation ten times worse because the RATS are like the Islamofascists—they only understand force. When you make an accommodation with them, you are telling them you're weak. When you smash them in the face, they back off and respect you. Gates is an accommodation.