Defense Secretary Robert Gates, en route to an annual security summit in Singapore Friday, signaled as much, saying North Korea’s actions so far do not warrant sending more US troops to the region.
“I don’t think that anybody in the [Obama] administration thinks there is a crisis,” Mr. Gates told reporters aboard his military jet early Friday morning, still Thursday night in Washington.
If something does happen w DPRK during the rest of President Obama’s reign…these words will be the catalyst for the next version of a 911 Commission. In the meantime, South Korean children continue to practice for the NON-threat of a North Korean chemical weapons artillery attack.
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Of course nobody in the administration thinks this is a crisis.
That would make it a distraction from the crisis they’re busy taking advantage of.
Gates is a mindless robot. No wonder obama wanted him to stay on. Douchebag.
Don’t be so hard on Gates. He’s just relaying the Obama policy. He’s just the messenger; shoot the message. I saw GEN Petraeus recently struggling to say what he needed to say without disrespecting the president’s policies, although he barely pulled it off.