USA TODAY: …In a memoir to be released next week, [ former Defense secretary Robert Gates] wrote that Obama — who sent additional troops to Afghanistan during his first term — began to have doubts about the policy, spurred in part by negative feedback from civilian advisers in the White House…
According to reports by The New York Times, Washington Post and others who obtained early copies of the book, Gates has critical things to say about Vice President Biden, Obama’s national security staff, members of Congress, former secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and President George W. Bush, who first appointed Gates as Defense secretary in 2006. After staying on at Obama’s request, Gates retired in 2011…
His book also contains praise for all of these officials, as well as some self-criticism… (more)
