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Barack Obama should keep Robert Gates on as U.S. Secretary of Defense.
"grants him the room to operate and to isolate the political opposition"
1/9/2009 3:23:55 PM
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And people who can't see that Obama needs to reassure the political establishment by doing things like re-appointing Robert Gates at the Pentagon precisely so he can have the establishment's good will, which in turn grants him the room to operate and to isolate the political opposition, understand so little about politics that it's not even worth the time it would take to spell out the argument to them.
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Posted on 12/9/2008 1:14:23 PM by MikeDApproved 1/9/2009 3:23 PM
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