Pictures

U.S. Army Captain Michael Kelvington, commander of the Battle company, 1-508 Parachute Infantry battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, bows next to remains of Gulam Dostager, a member of Afghan Local Police who was killed in the blast of an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) during the joint Tor Janda (Black Flag in Pashtu) operation, in Zahri district of Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan May 25, 2012. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: MILITARY CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Reuters Photojournalism

Our day's top images, in-depth photo essays and offbeat slices of life. See the best of Reuters photography.  See more | Photo caption 

Members of the U.S. Navy Blue Angels fly over the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan as part of the 25th annual Fleet Week celebration in New York, May 23, 2012. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz (UNITED STATES - Tags: MILITARY ANNIVERSARY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Fleet Week

The U.S. Navy takes Manhattan for a week.  Slideshow 

Photo

The SpaceX mission

A privately owned unmanned rocket blasts off on a mission to be the first commercial flight to the International Space Station.  Slideshow 

U.S. military option on Iran would only buy time: Gates

WASHINGTON | Fri Sep 25, 2009 5:18pm EDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Friday military action against Iran would only "buy time," adding diplomacy was needed to persuade the Islamic state to abandon its nuclear program.

"The reality is there is no military option that does anything more than buy time. The estimates are one to three years or so," Gates said in an interview with CNN.

"The only way you end up not having a nuclear capable Iran is for the Iranian government to decide their security is diminished by having those weapons."
Comments (0)
This discussion is now closed. We welcome comments on our articles for a limited period after their publication.