Robert Gates, 80, is the distinguished former secretary of protection underneath presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
Before that, he spent 26 years within the CIA, which he headed, and was a member of the National Security Council.
Do not embrace him among the many 51 disgraced intelligence officers who signed the deceitful letter calling the suppressed Hunter Biden laptop computer Russian disinformation in the course of the 2020 election.
Throughout Gates’ profession, he bought to know Joe Biden properly, each when Biden was a U.S. Senator and chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and when he was Obama’s vice chairman.
He summarized his opinion of Biden’s experience on international coverage in his e-book, “Duty, Memoirs of a Secretary of War,” revealed in 2014.
He mentioned he preferred Joe Biden personally, however “I think he’s been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.”
Asked if he nonetheless believed that on the eve of the 2020 presidential election, which Biden received, Gates, who oversaw the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq underneath Bush and Obama, mentioned, “I think I stand by that statement.”
And in 2021, he mentioned he was sickened by Biden’s botched and humiliating 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan that value the lives of 13 U.S. service members, a mistake that didn’t have to occur.
It was an indication of weak point that broken America’s status worldwide and emboldened Russia to invade Ukraine and Iran to again Hamas to invade Israel.
One solely wonders what Gates should assume now following the Iranian-sponsored murderous invasion of Israel by its Hamas terrorist proxies in Gaza, which it has financed after Biden not directly paid the mullahs in Iran $6 billion in ransom cash to free 5 Americans held hostages.
The U.S. and Qatar have agreed to not act on any request from Iran to entry that cash in the intervening time, the Associated Press is reporting. But it’s not a full refreezing.
Biden’s appeasement of Iran, like former President Barack Obama earlier than him, is aware of no finish. Biden additionally launched 5 Iranians held in U.S prisons.
Gates warned us that Biden was incompetent.
When Biden rescinded the strict financial sanctions positioned on Iran by President Trump, he solely made Iran richer. And it has completed nothing to stall Iran’s drive to construct a nuclear weapon that Iran has vowed to first use on Israel after which on the United States.
Iran underneath Trump was reeling. Iran underneath Biden is rocking.
The Iranian assist of the Hamas terrorists doesn’t even consider the $80 billion in army gear that Biden left behind when he reduce and ran in Afghanistan.
One can solely speculate what number of of these 42,000 pickup vans and SUVs, the 1000’s of Humvees, or the 64,000 machine weapons — to call only some gadgets — Biden deserted in Afghanistan which have ended up within the palms of Hamas terrorists.
One can even solely speculate how a lot of that $6 billion headed to Iran has allowed them to make use of different cash readily available to produce the rockets and missiles it rained down on Israel to start out the conflict.
Yes, Biden does assist army help to our sturdy ally Israel, which has lengthy been U.S. coverage. But he additionally supplied oblique army assist to Iran, our enemy, by lifting the sanctions and gifting them billions that had been held in escrow.
And every time Biden bows to Iran, the mullahs there thank him by chanting, “Death to America” after they end chanting “Death to Israel.”
All of it is a pathetic try and get Iran again to the nuclear negotiating desk to revive the 2015 nuclear deal (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) that Obama authorized however that Trump thrashed.
As if Iran goes to abide by something it indicators.
Think what you’ll about Trump, and there’s a lot to consider. But there have been no wars when he was President. China and Russia had been held in verify, and he had Iran on its knees.
Trump warned Iran of main retaliation if it killed a single American. Iran’s proxy Hamas has killed thus far killed 27 and Biden has not responded.
Joe Biden’s huge blunder in Afghanistan led to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
And now Biden is supplying each Ukraine and Israel with huge quantities of American army help to guard their borders whereas the wide-open U.S. border with Mexico stays unguarded.
The solely entity that appears to be functioning underneath Biden is the U.S. army arms trade.
We ought to have listened to Bill Gates.
Peter Lucas is a veteran Massachusetts political reporter and columnist.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”