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In addition to this straight-forward analysis of Robert Gates short-comings and failures in his years of service with the CIA, National Security Council, and Department of Defense, the self-serving nature of Gates book "Duty" is made obvious by his criticism of other high-level advisors while giving himself a pass on the many errors of judgment manifest in his recommendations. Especially galling is his writing that Joe Biden was wrong in virtually all his foreign affairs suggestions. Biden, who was right on Iraq, saying a return to partisan strife would most likely occur when we left, leading him to believe our extensive involvement in trying to establish a centralized government would be fruitless, being criticized by Gates, who was wrong on promoting the Iraq War, as well as wrong in opposing the Bin Laden raid, wrong on doubting that the collapse of the Soviet Union was real, wrong on repeatedly aiding and abetting illegal operations and surveillance by the CIA and security agencies which have so undermined our government's credibility at home and abroad! In calling his book "Duty", it is clear that Gates' sense of duty was not to the well-being of the nation as a whole, but rather to what he felt was his own personal duty -- to embellish in any way he could the growth of his benefactor, the military-defense-surveillance industry he served.
ROBERT GATES' NUTTY IDEAS OF "DUTY"
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