Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates Harshly Critiques Obama in His New Memoir "Duty"

From Ace of Spades HQ:

As reviewed by Bob Woodward, so this is as insidery as it gets.

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 “doesn’t believe in his own strategy, and doesn’t consider the war to be his. For him, it’s all about getting out.”

Which is what is so galling. Men are being killed at three times the rate as they died under Bush's leadership, and Obama is not even trying to win.

Those men remain there out of political cowardice. Men are dying for Obama's political cowardice. If he does not wish to fight the war-- then he should save those men's lives and bring them home.

It is one thing to sacrifice men's lives for an important objective. The only objective sought by Obama is avoiding the "Weak on Terrorism" attack that would be lodged by the Right. And the attack that Obama claimed, in knocking the Iraq War constantly, that he would be tough as the Devil on Afghanistan.

So men are dying, to save Obama some short-term minor political pain.

The Dear Leader has no honor and, as typical, is only interested in surviving the next news cycle.