Secretary of Defense Robert Gates:
“The United States is unlikely to repeat a mission on the scale of those in Afghanistan and Iraq anytime soon – that is, forced regime change followed by nation building under fire,” he wrote
Anytime soon. D’oh! Weeza izn’t lernt gol’darn’t thingz. No moneyz, no warzuv scalesez. We bankruptz us-selves.
More likely, he said, are “scenarios requiring a familiar tool kit of capabilities, albeit on a smaller scale.”
Familiar tool-kit? Prithee, lemme guess: More flying robotz assassinashunz.