Gatesgate
Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2014 8:08 am
So Bob Gates has written a book and, while some of it is flattering, others parts are not so. So lets take a look:
"discussions in the Situation Room allowed no room for discriminating analysis: Everything was awful, and Obama and his team had arrived just in time to save the day.”
Without "discriminating analysis" how can you save anything?
"He (Gates) also found the president and vice president to be unnecessarily distrustful of the military. One salient story comes in a debate about Afghanistan, after which Biden and Obama called their decision an “order,” which shocks Gates. He writes that the “order demonstrated… the complete unfamiliarity of both men with the American military culture” and “was unnecessary and insulting, proof dispositive of the depth of the Obama White House’s distrust of the nation’s military leadership.”
Maybe this is why Obama has purged over 200 of the military's top officers. Something a good socialist dictator does.
After a story leaked in January 2009 about Israel and Iran, President Obama told Gates that he wanted a criminal investigation into the leaks.
When the McChrystal plan for Afghanistan leaked to The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward, according to the memoir, the president raged to Gates, asking, “Is it a lack of respect for me?… Do they resent that I never served in the military? Do they think because I’m young that I don’t see what they’re doing?”
A remarkable sign that Obama doesn't have the confidence nor the self esteem to handle his job.
Now before you think this is only one man, lets take a look at what a British senior Defense Advisor has to say:
"President Obama is “chronically incapable” of military strategy and falls far short of his predecessor George W. Bush, according to one of Britain’s most senior military advisors.
Sir Hew Strachan, an advisor to the Chief of the Defense Staff, told The Daily Beast that the United States and Britain were guilty of total strategic failure in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Obama’s attempts to intervene on behalf of the Syrian rebels “has left them in a far worse position than they were before.”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2 ... world.html
So the next time you are led to think Obama is someone capable of leading this country, someone capable of formulating a coherent foreign policy...guess again.
"discussions in the Situation Room allowed no room for discriminating analysis: Everything was awful, and Obama and his team had arrived just in time to save the day.”
Without "discriminating analysis" how can you save anything?
"He (Gates) also found the president and vice president to be unnecessarily distrustful of the military. One salient story comes in a debate about Afghanistan, after which Biden and Obama called their decision an “order,” which shocks Gates. He writes that the “order demonstrated… the complete unfamiliarity of both men with the American military culture” and “was unnecessary and insulting, proof dispositive of the depth of the Obama White House’s distrust of the nation’s military leadership.”
Maybe this is why Obama has purged over 200 of the military's top officers. Something a good socialist dictator does.
After a story leaked in January 2009 about Israel and Iran, President Obama told Gates that he wanted a criminal investigation into the leaks.
When the McChrystal plan for Afghanistan leaked to The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward, according to the memoir, the president raged to Gates, asking, “Is it a lack of respect for me?… Do they resent that I never served in the military? Do they think because I’m young that I don’t see what they’re doing?”
A remarkable sign that Obama doesn't have the confidence nor the self esteem to handle his job.
Now before you think this is only one man, lets take a look at what a British senior Defense Advisor has to say:
"President Obama is “chronically incapable” of military strategy and falls far short of his predecessor George W. Bush, according to one of Britain’s most senior military advisors.
Sir Hew Strachan, an advisor to the Chief of the Defense Staff, told The Daily Beast that the United States and Britain were guilty of total strategic failure in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Obama’s attempts to intervene on behalf of the Syrian rebels “has left them in a far worse position than they were before.”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2 ... world.html
So the next time you are led to think Obama is someone capable of leading this country, someone capable of formulating a coherent foreign policy...guess again.