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* How will you ensure that, when the president's term ends, we will be on the path to victory and not defeat?
Robert Gates is, by all reports, the right man to succeed Rumsfeld and probably deserves the benefit of our support. But he needs to be tested first, and in his answers to those questions we can best judge if he can remake George W. Bush into the war president he must be for the next two years.
TAS contributing editor Jed Babbin is the author of Inside the Asylum: Why the UN and Old Europe Are Worse Than You Think (Regnery, 2004) and, with Edward Timperlake, Showdown: Why China Wants War With the United States (Regnery, 2006).