{"id":104390,"date":"2014-01-08T19:07:30","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T19:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/robert-gates-former-defense-secretary-offers-harsh-critique-of-obamas-leadership-in-duty\/"},"modified":"2014-01-08T19:20:34","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T19:20:34","slug":"robert-gates-former-defense-secretary-offers-harsh-critique-of-obamas-leadership-in-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/robert-gates-former-defense-secretary-offers-harsh-critique-of-obamas-leadership-in-duty\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Gates, former defense secretary, offers harsh critique of Obama\u2019s leadership in \u2018Duty\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bob Woodward<\/strong>
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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 \u201cdoesn’t believe in his own strategy, and doesn’t consider the war to be his. For him, it’s 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’s support for the troops, only his support for their mission,\u201d Gates writes.<\/p>\n

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Bob Woodward 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 \u201cdoesn’t believe in his own strategy, and doesn’t consider the war to be his. For him, it’s all about getting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-104390","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}