Gates Of Hell

"I got your back, Mr. President . . . with a knife."

In his new memoir Duty, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates had some less-than-complimentary things to say about President Obama and Vice President Biden.  Fox News says the book exposes the supposed foreign policy "incompetence " in the White House.

According to Gates, Obama is ambivalent about our mission ("war", as Gates calls it) in Afghanistan.  The President has the greatest concern and respect for the troops, but he's wary of military brass, and has doubts about our policy.  Gates says that Obama lacks passion and commitment for the Afghan war, is unsure that we're engaged in a just cause, and is primarily focused on getting out rather than winning.  He adds that Obama didn't trust General David Petraeus and dislikes Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

Gates says that Biden, long-time member and former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has been wrong on just about every foreign policy issue, mainly because Biden possesses a distrust of the military.

To which I say, good, good, GOOD!  When our Executive branch is properly cautious about military entanglements, when it keeps the generals at arms-length and works to extract our armed forces from that giant, sucking black hole known as Afghanistan, then that administration is showing a great deal of competence indeed.

Gates has been a career militarist and cheerleader for all things CIA and Pentagon.  His book, and the timing of its release, reveal him to be an opportunistic little weasel.

And as always, Fox News and Roger Ailes can go piss up a rope!