Defense Secretary of War
Robert Gates, who is Secretary of Defense, is a holdover from the Bush Administration (even though we voted for change).Something that he said recently has puzzled me. He said:"We have as high a motive to get information that will prevent attacks on our soldiers as anybody does," he said of the military. "And yet we find the methods that we use are sufficient."The defense chief sided with Mr. Obama in his debate with former Vice President Dick Cheney, who defended the Bush administration's interrogation tactics and criticized the president in a speech last week. "Having been in this business a long time, I think that you never can underestimate the power of American values,"The puzzling part is that use of the word "underestimate." Shouldn't it really be "over estimate"?Of course, other parts puzzle me here as well.
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Robert Gates, who is Secretary of Defense, is a holdover from the Bush Administration (even though we voted for change).Something that he said recently has puzzled me. He said:"We have as high a motive to get information that will prevent attacks on our soldiers as anybody does," he said of the military. "And yet we find the methods that we use are sufficient."The defense chief sided with Mr. Obama in his debate with former Vice President Dick Cheney, who defended the Bush administration's interrogation tactics and criticized the president in a speech last week. "Having been in this business a long time, I think that you never can underestimate the power of American values,"The puzzling part is that use of the word "underestimate." Shouldn't it really be "over estimate"?Of course, other parts puzzle me here as well.
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