Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates responds to a reporter's question during a press conference at the Pentagon, June 16, 2011. DOD photo by Cherie CullenThe Defense Rests -- Newsweek
As Robert Gates retires from the Pentagon top job, he sounds a grim warning: America is losing its grip.
Aboard the Pentagon jet on his last foreign trip as secretary of defense, Robert Gates takes a moment to peer across the American horizon—and the view is dire: the U.S. is in danger of losing its supremacy on the global stage, he says.
“I’ve spent my entire adult life with the United States as a superpower, and one that had no compunction about spending what it took to sustain that position,” he tells NEWSWEEK, seated in a windowless conference room aboard the Boeing E-4B. “It didn’t have to look over its shoulder because our economy was so strong. This is a different time.”
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My Comment: Sorry Mr. Secretary, but America is losing its taste to be a military superpower for good reason. High budgetary deficits, body bags and maimed soldiers fighting meaningless wars in places like Afghanistan, Libya, and covert wars in scores of other places .... it is time to fix our problems back at home first before looking at what the world needs fixing.