Consistent with the New York Times, a brand new memoir via former Safety Secretary Robert Gates portrays President Barack Obama as a powerful and independent thinker who came to share the views of folks that criticized his personal technique in Afghanistan.

alThough Obama at the start supported a technique of escalation in Afghanistan contrary to his advisors’ advice, Gates recounts within the forthcoming Accountability: Memoirs of a Secretary at War, with the aid of 2011 Obama was bored to death with the desultory outcomes, uncertain of General David Patraeus, suspicious of Afghan President Harmid Karzai, and worn down by way of poor remarks from advisors.

“As I sat there, I thought: The president doesn’t trust his commander, can’t stand Karzai, doesn’t consider in his own technique and doesn’t consider the warfare to be his,” Gates remembers. “For him, it’s all about getting out.”

Obama deployed about 30,000 further troops in 2009 below Secretary Gates, before initiating a withdrawal of most U.S. forces from Afghanistan beneath then-Security Secretary Leon Panetta, a process to be accomplished via 2014.

The memoir additionally goes after the “operational” and “micromanaging” aspects of the Nationwide Security Council, and tells of clashes with Vice President Joe Biden. “I feel he has been wrong on virtually every major international coverage and national security issue during the last four a long time,” Gates claims.

[h/t New York Instances]

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