Gates Channels Von Rumsfeld

Haven't we had enough of this vague corp-speak, meaning absolutely zero?

"In the intelligence business, we always used to categorize information in two ways, secrets and mysteries," Gates, a former CIA director, told a Pentagon news conference.
He added: "Mysteries were those where there were too many variables to predict. And I think that how long U.S. forces will be in Afghanistan is in that area."

The government can't tell us why the US military is in Afghanistan because the average american citizen wouldn't exactly like the truth. Building oil and gas pipelines, manning bases for future wars of conquest and protecting record poppy/heroin harvests isn't what american citizens are led to believe the military is for. Grandiose posturing and lofty language and terrorist fighting tough talk in the past doesn't mean squat when the empire's occupation is failing miserably. And the apologists have absolutely nothing to say to us that will make any sense.

Marine Gen. James Cartwright on something or another:

"When you start to see that attitude change, then you start to have a sense that things are going to move in a direction that would be towards the end of the violence side of this equation."

Whatever.