Just like rats fleeing a sinking ship, everyone is abandoning Biden. Even Obama’s top man thinks he is on the wrong track!
Robert Gates was President Obama’s top man in the defense department, and he slammed President Joe Biden during an interview with 60 Minutes that aired last Sunday. Moreover, he also praised former President Donald Trump on the subject of foreign policy.
Gates made the remarks to 60 Minutes co-host Anderson Cooper, and that is where he noted that President Joe Biden has “gotten a lot wrong.” That’s right. The top man for Obama is not really buying Biden’s leadership.
“He opposed every one of Ronald Reagan’s military programs to contest the Soviet Union,” Gates said. “He opposed the first Gulf War. That list goes on. Now I will say that in the Obama administration, he and I obviously had significant differences over Afghanistan.”
Of course, considering that Gates once worked for Biden’s boss, he did seek to soften the blow a little. He noted that there were several areas where he and Biden saw eye to eye before he said that he thinks that Biden made a mistake in Afghanistan.
Finally, this was the part of the interview where he was asked what would happen if China had decided to throw their weight around in Taiwan, and that is when Gates said that the United States should focus on deterrence and strengthening Taiwan so that they could continue to defend themselves.
“I think this is a place where President Trump got it right,” Gates said. “He basically awakened Americans, and I would say especially the business community, to a China that — the assumptions about which we had gotten wrong. And the assumption for 40 years was that a richer China would be a freer China, and that’s clearly not going to happen. But there’s another piece of this puzzle with China, and that is the economic side. Chinese now manage something like three dozen major ports around the world. They are the biggest trading partner of more than half of South America. They are everywhere. And what are we doing in these non-military arenas to compete with the Chinese?”
It’s good to see that not everyone who worked for Obama is part of the liberal lynch mob that is calling for President Trump’s head.