[Bahbah]

I appreciate your thoughtful comments.

[txrangerette]

Thanks, Bahbah. Time will tell.

Glenn Beck is trashing Gates now. And President Bush, too. Most of the time I like Glenn, but I would ask him this. How come men like Senators Imhoff and Sessions voted for Gates and did not appear to be upset by his appointment? Hmmm? They are far from appeasers and cut and run types. Something is afoot, I think, that we in flyover country don't quite get, yet. I'm betting it's the WAY Gates operates in DC and not a big change in policy (although I don't rule out a superficial appearance of major policy changes).

Glenn is apoplectic that Gates once advocated sitting down and talking to Iran and trying to find a "regional settlement in the Middle East". I think he said it was in 2004 at a meeting of the CFR. I don't care. Gates will do what the President wants him to do or he won't last.

I don't think we have seen all or even a fraction of this President's "cards on the table".