Bob Gates is shouting for weapons spending cuts; won't someone listen?

By George C. Wilson
gcwilson1@comcast.net

In pleading for sanity in providing for “the common defense,” as the Constitution puts it, Defense Secretary Gates sounds to me like a man who (1) plans to announce his resignation from Fort Fumble right after the midterm elections and leave office by the end of this year; (2) wants to burnish his reputation as a reformer before he becomes just another Washington has-been or (3) has persuaded President Obama to take the defense budget off the White House “don’t touch” list, starting next year.

Whatever his reasons, Gates is clearly fed up with the status quo in the military-industrial-political complex.