secretary of defense

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/16/robert-gates-plans-to-ret_n_683134.html Gates' retirement would certainly present the Obama Admin with a golden opportunity to shift course in Afghanistan. The question is, who out there has the military bona-fides to be confirmed for the SecDef post...

It sounds like he is going to get approved from what I've heard on the radio. I'm very unfamiliar with this man, he sounds like a conservative but much more moderate and realistic. Any opinions or information on this man? I have yet to hear a bad side about Gates, except that he did not get the...