Musings on Globalization

With Richard Gates new strategy to revitalize our efforts to achieve success in our War on Terror, as well as his previous experience as the head of the CIA, it is becoming more and more apparent that his efforts as Secretary of Defense will indeed bear fruition. Additionally, unlike Donald Rumsfeld, Gates already has established a healthy relationship with the United States Military, in order to better accomplish his new and comparatively more aggressive strategy. Finally, with the recent shift in power in America’s legislative branch that now favors a sooner withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan; Gates new plan for action in the Middle Eastern theatre will be met with much less resistance than many of Rumsfelds proposals, as they promote expediting the path to victory in those respective theatres, thus helping to facilitate a sooner overall withdrawal. It seems, unlike some critics might like to propose; that the overall situation that the new Secretary of Defense Richard Gates finds himself in is one that seems better bound for success than his predecessor, a success that will dually satisfy his critics and the American public at large (ostensibly speaking), at least in relation to America’s sentiments towards the War on Terror’s current predicament, as well as our foreign policy abroad.