GARCIA-NAVARRO: Stillwater has spent her first week in Iraq in the heavily protected Green Zone, the complicated war outside its gates still beyond her grasp.
Nations always prepare to fight their last war, and now Gates' Pentagon is thinking only about what the U.S. needs to defeat jihadists in sandy and rocky environments.
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The Times article noted that seven years ago Bill Gates predicted the war on spam would be won in two years.
When the outcome of the war in Iraq was in doubt, Bob Gates presided over the extraordinary efforts that helped restore order.
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For Microsoft the longer-term challenge is the one that keeps Bill Gates up at night: the IQ war.
It was not until World War I, when British forces were at the gates of Jerusalem, in November, 1917, that the British Foreign Secretary, Arthur Balfour, anxious for Jewish support in the war, issued his epic yet ambiguous Declaration.
The Bush administration can only respond, as Defense Secretary Robert Gates did in Munich, that one Cold War is enough.
Notably, Gates has been an outspoken critic of the war in Libya.
The recommendations McChrystal makes are meant to advise Obama on how to implement the president's war strategy, not "launch a new one, " Gates said.
At the suggestion of some of his staff, Mr. Gates has begun referring to himself as the "secretary of war, " saying that shows he and his department have no higher priority than the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Were Mr. Gates actually to do so, he would condemn the Corps to going to war from the sea for the foreseeable future with obsolescent amphibious vehicles, or not at all.
So we have a new secretary of defense in Mr. Gates, and he's looking for new directions in the conduct of the war.
Losing talent and watching cash decline in relative terms, it's my guess that Gates and Ballmer decided enough was enough--it's time to go to war against these troublesome dot-coms.
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