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LOOKING
FORWARD
IN ANGST
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HUFFINGTON
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ACTUALLY,
JOE BIDEN
WAS RIGHT
UBLISHED EXCERPTS
from former Secretary of Defense Robert
Gates’ upcoming memoir, Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary
at War, have put Washington into a
tingling tizzy. Chief among the minor bombshells that have been released are Gates’ adjudication of the
policies and positions advocated
by Vice President Joe Biden. While
P
Gates admits that the vice president was “a man of integrity,” he
was, to Gates’ estimation, nevertheless “wrong on nearly every major
foreign policy and national security
issue over the past four decades.”
Which is an extraordinary
thing to say! It means that, as
Gates calculates it, Biden stopped
being a credible foreign policy
voice about two years after he
was first elected to the Senate.
Naturally, because the White
House is obligated to do so, ad-
Former
Defense
Secretary
Robert
Gates’ newly
released book,
Duty, created
controversy
in part
because of its
criticisms of
Vice President
Joe Biden’s
foreign policy
positions.