Still Swooning Over Gates

The honeymoon's not over for Robert Gates at the Pentagon, the Washington Post's Tom Ricks reports. He's still getting gushing reviews, especially since firing the Army secretary as a result of the Walter Reed scandal. But former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft sounds a note of caution: At this stage people still like Gates not so much for who he is but who he is not -- Donald Rumsfeld.

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