Defense Secretary Robert Gates has been a little, uh, unenthusiastic (to put it in non-treasonous terms) about President Obama's new war venture in North Africa, as we noted yesterday. How often does the civilian leader of our nation's military get to say a war is "not a vital national interest to the United States" before he either gets the sack or declares himself "president-general for life of America 2"? Not very long. Granted, Gates was pretty much on his way out anyway. But replacing him will be tricky, because Republicans probably won't approve any appointment who's not a Republican or they're on the record previously allowing to be appointed to a job like this. So,
There hasn't been a Democrat as Sec. of Defense in 14 years.
Even during the 2000 election when the Republicans were trying to make military readiness a campaign issue, there was a Republican Sec. of Defense.
Get with the program Gates. These countries won’t bomb themselves.
Bernie Sanders!
Lieberman would be an excellent choice since Gates has been dragging his feet on Syria, Algeria, Somalia, Iran . . .