{"id":39205,"date":"2014-01-07T16:04:11","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T21:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39205"},"modified":"2014-01-07T16:04:11","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T21:04:11","slug":"gates-snipes-at-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39205","title":{"rendered":"Gates snipes at Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"

Country Singer sends us a link from the Washington Post<\/a> wherein they report that former Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates has written a book that says what we’ve been saying around this blog for years;<\/p>\n

In a new memoir, former defense secretary Robert Gates unleashes harsh judgments about President Obama\u2019s leadership and his commitment to the Afghanistan war, writing that by early 2010 he had concluded the president \u201cdoesn\u2019t believe in his own strategy, and doesn\u2019t consider the war to be his. For him, it\u2019s all about getting out.\u201d<\/p>\n

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 \u201cskeptical if not outright convinced it would fail,\u201d Gates writes in \u201cDuty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War.\u201d<\/p>\n

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. \u201cI never doubted Obama\u2019s support for the troops, only his support for their mission,\u201d Gates writes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, f’n duh. I don’t like Gates – I didn’t like him when he was the SecDef and I don’t like him now, and it’s mostly for exactly these reasons. Gates was in the position where he could shape policy and convince the president that he was 8TFU, instead he was Good Time Charlie, glad-handing the culprits who sent troops to their deaths, and he waits until now to speak out. Gates enabled this administration to undermine our success in Afghanistan and he was the architect of the current race for the exits.<\/p>\n

And then on the way out the door, Gates took shots at the troops’ pay and benefits as well as those of retirees. Sorry, Gates, but you own this failure in Afghanistan right along with Obama, Panetta and Hagel. Live with it and quit making like it’s not your fault. Peddle that shit elsewhere. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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