Robert Gates has been passed by the Senate Armed Services Committee to be the Next Secretary of Defense. Gates as the Washington Post notes, stated that ' all options are on the table ' when in comes to the War in Iraq. But as Gates stated there is only one President of the United States and that is George W. Bush, and Bush does not need the confirmation of the Democrats for actions, they could pull the money for the War and there are those that want to do that if they had the chance, but that would place the 2008 Presidential Nominee having to run away from his or her own party. Gates views to the Committee are interesting, it seems that he wants to create a broad church when it comes to Foreign Policy, Gates stated the following. ' to see if we can forge that kind of bipartisan approach going forward ' It should be noted that although on the whole the Republicans and Democrats had a common policy when it came to the USSR, it was the wrong policy, Reagan had it right in 1976, " We win they lose" it should be noted that for the most part the Foreign Policy Establishment wanted to work with the USSR, and President Reagan had trouble with the State Department when he wanted to say in West Berlin for the Soviet President to tear down the Berlin Wall. If the Foreing Policy Establishment has been listened to , the Berlin Wall would still be up and the USSR would still be an Evil Empire.
It should be noted and understood that when Bush 41 came in to Power, he placed a lot of Ford people in to his administration, he took six months to review Reagan's policy with the USSR, by the time they got around to getting a policy the Berlin Wall was coming down and Iraq and the New World Order post USSR was forming.
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