President Barack Obama speaks next to Secretary of Defense Robert Gates (R) in a Cabinet meeting, at the White House in Washington, June 22, 2010. REUTERS/Larry Downing
Gates, Obama And Denying Reality In The Middle East -- David Rohde, Reuters
The talk about former Defense Secretary Bob Gates’ blistering new memoir “Duty” has focused on the description of President Barack Obama’s tense 2011 Situation Room meeting with his top military advisers. A frustrated Obama expresses doubts about General David Petraeus, then U.S. commander in Afghanistan, and questions whether the administration can do business with Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
“As I sat there,” Gates wrote, “I thought: The president doesn’t trust his commander, can’t stand Karzai, doesn’t believe in his own strategy and doesn’t consider the war to be his. For him, it’s all about getting out.”
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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials
Grim Sequel to Iraq’s War -- Peter Baker, New York Times
Why Obama Won’t Take on al-Qaeda in Iraq Anymore -- Michael Crowley, Time
’Nam comes to Iraq: Losing to al Qaeda, after winning -- Seth Lipsky, New York Post
Congress to Iraq’s Maliki: No Arms for a Civil War -- Josh Rogin, Daily Beast
Syria’s Al Qaeda Gang Wars -- Jamie Dettmer, The Daily Beast
How far will Iran's hardliners go to stop Rouhani? -- Scott Peterson, Christian Science Monitor
What Iran Wants in 2014 -- Hassan Rouhani, Project Syndicate
China's Race to Conquer World Markets -- Wieland Wagner, Spiegel Online
China’s Water Crisis Made Worse by Policy Failures -- Gordon G. Chang, World Affairs
Libya yanks salaries for militiamen in bid to gain control -- Gert Van Langendonck, Christian Science Monitor
Europe’s Supernova Moment -- Jochen Bittner, New York Times
Modern Britain can survive – if we all have the will for it -- Martin Kettle, The Guardian
In Nicaragua, fears of dynastic power as Ortegas jointly wield power -- Tim Johnson, McClatchy News
Drug traffickers threaten Central America -- Elliott Abrams, Miami Herald/www.cfr.org
1 comment:
The Commander that Obama "did not trust" had the entire War Strategy "Up His Snatch."
Robert Gates with CIA, DoD and all the Surveillance information knew jolly well about all that went on in Google Mail that had all the War Strategy "All Up In."
And even now you claim that Patraeus was Trustworthy? Mr. Gates, you should be EXECUTED for DERELICTION OF DUTY.
Google and GMail never had the right to classified information.
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