Ex-Pentagon Chiefs Criticize Obama, Putin on Syria -- RIA Novosti
WASHINGTON, September 18 (RIA Novosti) – Former US Defense Secretary Robert Gates did not mince words this week when asked if he trusts Russian President Vladimir Putin as Washington and Moscow negotiate a plan to secure Syria’s chemical stockpiles.
“Are you kidding me?” Gates told a forum in Dallas on Tuesday evening, The Associated Press (AP) reported.
Gates spoke alongside fellow former Pentagon chief Leon Panetta at the forum, where both men questioned US President Barack Obama’s response to the alleged use of chemical weapons by the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
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