Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates conducts a press conference at Camp Fallujah, Iraq, April 19, 2007. Gates is accompanied by, from left, Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander of Multi-National Forces - Iraq; Maj. Gen. Walter E. Gaskin, commander of Multi-National Forces - Iraq West; Adm. William J. Fallon, commander of U.S. Central Command; Lt. Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, commander of Multi-National Corps - Iraq; and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Marine Gen. Peter Pace. Wikipedia
Robert Gates, Former Defense Secretary, Offers Harsh Critique Of Obama’s Leadership In ‘Duty’ -- Washington Post
In a new memoir, former defense secretary Robert Gates unleashes harsh judgments about President Obama’s leadership and his commitment to the Afghanistan war, writing that by early 2010 he had concluded the president “doesn’t believe in his own strategy, and doesn’t consider the war to be his. For him, it’s all about getting out.”
Leveling one of the more serious charges that a defense secretary could make against a commander in chief sending forces into combat, Gates asserts that Obama had more than doubts about the course he had charted in Afghanistan. The president was “skeptical if not outright convinced it would fail,” Gates writes in “Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War.”
Obama, after months of contentious discussion with Gates and other top advisers, deployed 30,000 more troops in a final push to stabilize Afghanistan before a phased withdrawal beginning in mid-2011. “I never doubted Obama’s support for the troops, only his support for their mission,” Gates writes.
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My Comment: Here is an easy prediction .... this will all but guarantee that in the future a newly elected Democrat President will not be re-appointing a Republican to a post that he or she may have had in the prior administration .... after-all .... who needs this type of political blow-back. As to Robert Gate's criticisms of President Obama .... I do not know if they are justified are not .... they are after all his opinions .... but if he felt this strongly he should have resigned in 2010 when he had doubts on President Obama's commitment to the Afghan mission .... but as we now know he choose not to. Bob Woodward's Washington Post column has a few more interesting tidbits of information that will probably coax me to eventually buy and read the book .... but for the moment Woodward's post is a must read. as well as the New York Times review of this book.
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