WASHINGTON - On his second fact-finding mission abroad since becoming defense secretary, Robert Gates discovered some less-than-encouraging things about the two wars he inherited from former Pentagon chief Donald H. Rumsfeld.
Gates returned to Washington on Saturday after a whirlwind tour that began last weekend in London and ended Friday in southern Iraq. In between he visited NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, met with troops and officials in Afghanistan and made stops in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Qatar.
He said he found "universal agreement" on the importance of averting failure in Iraq and of confronting extremism in Afghanistan. But he also saw a way ahead that …
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