Robert Gates called out Hellury's gross inconsistency on the GWOT much as Gov. Brian Schweitzer did.
dailymail | Hillary Rodham Clinton, a likely
Democratic Party standard-bearer in the 2016 presidential contest,
staked out her military-related positions in the 2008 race based on how
they would play politically, according to a former secretary of defense
who served in both the Obama and Bush administrations.
Describing
a 'remarkable' exchange he witnessed, Robert Gates writes in a book due
out next week that '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.'
Obama,
too, 'conceded vaguely that [his] opposition to the Iraq surge had been
political,' Gates recounts. 'To hear the two of them making these
admissions, and in front of me, was as surprising as it was dismaying.'
And Gates recounts how, as the
president lost faith in Gen. David Petraeus' handling of hostilities in
Afghanistan, he – Gates – lost faith in Obama's commitment to
accomplishing much of anything.
'As
I sat there,' he recalls, 'I thought: The president doesn’t trust his
commander, can’t stand [President Hamid] Karzai, doesn’t believe in his
own strategy and doesn’t consider the war to be his.'
'For him, it’s all about getting out.'
