Great profile of Defense Secretary Robert Gates in the Christian Science Monitor. I’ve been writing for months now that Gates is the key swing vote in the Afghanistan debate within the Obama administration, and it’s good to see other reporters coming to a similar conclusion. But I particularly love this kicker:

At a recent Washington conference, former Republican Congressman John McHugh, Obama’s pick as secretary of the Army, cracked a joke to introduce Gates: “When Bob Gates changes a light bulb at the Pentagon, it’s the building that rotates.”