Gates Says, 'I Want YOU'

摘要

It had been nine years since the 9/11 attacks. For all that time, US military men and women had been grinding it out in Afghanistan and Iraq. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, lecturing at Duke, devoted most of his words to triumphs and tribulations of the all-volunteer force, but he ended with a bang. Gates challenged the students sitting before him and at other elite US colleges to give serious thought to military service, to "take a risk in every sense of the word." The 1,200 young people in the Duke audience received his words in stunned but respectful silence.