Defense Secretary Gates Doesn't Get The Joke

Maybe he doesn't get the memos from the White House.

At the same time the Bush administration is pushing what it says are strong fiscal conservative credentials and insisting that Congress not raise spending above the levels in his fiscal 2008 budget, Defense Secretary Robert Gates yesterday called for more spending to be provided to the State Department and other federal agencies for what the Voice of American called "diplomacy, foreign aid, information and...'soft power.'"

There were lots of news stories about the speech. But rather than have anyone suggest a bias in the reporting, here's the VOA account.