[mainekitchen] Gates' memoir comingout soon. .....Gates Slams Biden in Memoir, Reveals He Nearly Quit
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Gates Slams Biden in Memoir, Reveals He Nearly Quit
By Zeke J Miller @zekejmillerJan. 07, 20140
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Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has harsh words for Vice President Joe
Biden's foreign policy judgement in his soon-to-be-released memoir.
According to the New York Times, which obtained an early copy of the memoir,
Gates calls Biden "a man of integrity," but questions his record. "I think he
has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue
over the past four decades," Gates writes, according to the Times.
Gates, the only high-level holdover from the Bush administration to the
President Barack Obama's Cabinet, reveals he nearly quit his post in September
2009 while Obama reviewed his Afghanistan strategy. According to the Times,
Gates writes he was "deeply uneasy with the Obama White House's lack of
appreciation - from the top down - of the uncertainties and unpredictability of
war.I came closer to resigning that day than at any other time in my tenure,
though no one knew it."
Gates was a backer of a substantial troop increase for Afghanistan early in
Obama's first term, while Biden argued for a smaller counter-terrorism mission
in the country.
The Washington Post quotes a separate exchange in the book between Obama and
former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, where they discussed their
opposition to the 2007 Iraq surge in the context of politics. "Hillary told the
president that her opposition to the [2007] surge in Iraq had been political
because she was facing him in the Iowa primary. .?.?. The president conceded
vaguely that opposition to the Iraq surge had been political. To hear the two
of them making these admissions, and in front of me, was as surprising as it
was dismaying."
Gates' memoir, "Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War," goes on sale next week.
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By Zeke J Miller @zekejmillerJan. 07, 20140
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title="POTUS, Bush 41 and SecDef Gates at the Points of Light at Texas A&M"/>
-- DoD photo
Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates greets President Barack Obama in College
Station, Texas, Oct. 16, 2009, prior to attending the Points of Light
Foundation forum at Texas A&M University. (DoD photo by Master Sgt. Jerry
Morrison, U.S. Air Force/Released)
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Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has harsh words for Vice President Joe
Biden's foreign policy judgement in his soon-to-be-released memoir.
According to the New York Times, which obtained an early copy of the memoir,
Gates calls Biden "a man of integrity," but questions his record. "I think he
has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue
over the past four decades," Gates writes, according to the Times.
Gates, the only high-level holdover from the Bush administration to the
President Barack Obama's Cabinet, reveals he nearly quit his post in September
2009 while Obama reviewed his Afghanistan strategy. According to the Times,
Gates writes he was "deeply uneasy with the Obama White House's lack of
appreciation - from the top down - of the uncertainties and unpredictability of
war.I came closer to resigning that day than at any other time in my tenure,
though no one knew it."
Gates was a backer of a substantial troop increase for Afghanistan early in
Obama's first term, while Biden argued for a smaller counter-terrorism mission
in the country.
The Washington Post quotes a separate exchange in the book between Obama and
former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, where they discussed their
opposition to the 2007 Iraq surge in the context of politics. "Hillary told the
president that her opposition to the [2007] surge in Iraq had been political
because she was facing him in the Iowa primary. .?.?. The president conceded
vaguely that opposition to the Iraq surge had been political. To hear the two
of them making these admissions, and in front of me, was as surprising as it
was dismaying."
Gates' memoir, "Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War," goes on sale next week.
Read more: Gates Slams Biden in Memoir, Reveals He Nearly Quit | TIME.com
http://swampland.time.com/2014/01/07/in-memoir-gates-slams-biden-reveals-he-nearly-quit/#ixzz2pkYIQz2Y
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