I have had mixed feeling about Obama’s former Secretary of Defense
Robert Gates … see:
Swinging Gates. However now that Gates has unloaded on
President Obama, former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, and VP, Joe Biden,
Gates has suddenly risen in my estimation.
(“The enemy of your enemy is your friend.”)
Now Gates has written a soon-to-be-published book, portions
of which have been leaked to Bob Woodward in the
Washington Post ... and it does not sugar-coat his feelings toward these three administration
hacks. Viz: Obama is two-faced, a very poor
manager, and willing to sacrifice American lives in Afghanistan to no real
purpose. Biden is anti-military and has
been, over the years, consistently wrong on all foreign policy issues. And Hillary Clinton’s motivating factor has been how something
might play politically … independent of the true merits of each situation.
Gates even takes a deserved dump on Congress.
When this book, “Duty.” comes out next week, I look forward to more of such relishing revelations. However, I do think that Bob's Gates
and Woodward will receive even fewer invites to inside-Washington social
elbow-rubbings than they are getting today ... but they should get a gold star on St. Peter's ledger.
Afterward: See also: Wall Street Journal Article.
