The Quiet Fury of Robert Gates

Wall Street Journal ^ | January 7, 2013 | Robert M. Gates

[ThePatriotsFlag]

I suspect it took him awhile - as it took many of us and many in the government, including, I think, Hillary Clinton - to admit that Obama was a controlling, entirely political and self-interested creature, motivated by nothing except what he perceived to be his own political gain and willing to say or do anything to promote it.

It took a while? What is wrong with people not knowing from the BEGINNING and before the inauguration that this man was a fake and nothing but trouble? I was writing a blog then and documented all of this...(and little good it did and I took up fishing..no one would listen.) he had a postage stamp resume, was Bill Ayers buddy, wouldn't give us a simple birth certificate, wouldn't release his college records...and he is given the most powerful position in the world? Maybe the demise of this country is our "reward" for pure stupidity and for treating an election like it was a sports event and a "social statement"...well we pay the price now. But it didn't take a rocket scientist to see what was happening. And now there is "wonderment and some regret?" Fools all!

[PowderMonkey]

"I don't know why Gates decided to stay on with Obama in the first place."

"Potomac fever" takes everybody within two months of arrival. Lived it, worked it, and survived among its victims as a "Consiglieri." The first thing to go is the moral compass. The enormity of national influence wielded, even among low level apparatchiks is astounding, intoxicating, and highly addictive. Your perceived worth is measured by who you work for, who you know...how much "juice" you got behind you. Let's not even mention the perks, parties, women, and influence peddlers. Few can walk away from it. Most stay on, even into a retirement that can fetch a six figures income.

[SecondAmendment]

> But it’s hard to admit that the occupant of the WH, for whom you work, is a sociopathic megalomaniac

Huh?

The Greek columns victory speech along with the self appointed "Office of the President Elect" schtick made it obvious.

[GOPJ]

He didn’t quit because there’s a good chance Obama would replace him with a thug. I’ll come back with a link...

[hal ogen]

So, gates, why were you such a quisling that you didn’t quit at the time, speak up at the time and write a book at the time? Weaknness...and ass-covering I’d say.

[Smokin' Joe]

The Greek columns victory speech along with the self appointed "Office of the President Elect" schtick made it obvious.

Leni Riefenstahl would have been proud of the Nuremburg redux set from Triumph of the Will. That had all the alarm bells going off with me.

[fwdude]

“Quiet fury” is complicity.

GAYtes is a traitor and should be hung.

[GOPJ]

He’s NOT thrilled with Hillary either...

[GOPJ]

Link headline: Obama Nominates Cop Killer Advocate to Head DOJ Civil Rights Division

This is why he didn’t quit. This is why other good people still stuck in this administration need to stay put...

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2014/01/08/obama-nominates-racist-cop-killer-defender-debo-adegbile-to-head-doj-civil-rights-division-n1773332

Obama Nominates Cop Killer Advocate to Head DOJ Civil Rights Division

[skeeter]

How about excerpting the part about Hillary basing foreign policy positions upon political considerations?

A focus there might be something that might actually help this country going forward instead of rehashing ancient history.

[X-spurt]

Agree! Gates was College President at Texas A&M before W got him to come onboard. He did not then and does not now need book sales for a living.

I wished he had refused to stay on when the Kenyan moved into the WhiteyHut, but maybe he felt he could resist and actually make a difference. With hitlery snuggling up to nobama for her run, his expose’ just might shed enough light to push a few more away from progressives looking for power.

[TomGuy]

Should, woulda, coulda.

Didn’t.

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[StormEye]

"Now he just wants to sell a book. I have no sympathy for him."

Exactly my thoughts.
The honorable course of action would have been to resign and then tell the nation what was going on in the Obama Regime. I appreciate the after-the-fact report about the phoney president's administration but it's too late in coming. Maybe the country could have avoided another four years of Obama if Gates had spoken up sooner.

[pepsi_junkie]

I wished he had refused to stay on when the Kenyan moved into the WhiteyHut, but maybe he felt he could resist and actually make a difference.

Gates angered me mightily at the time because simultaneously served as a apologist for whatever Obama could come up with and a symbol of how Obama is post-partison ("look, Obama kept Bush's defense guy and he says what Obama is doing is fine so it MUST be good"). I'd have rather had some dem hack trying to sell the White House policies than a guy who gave them actual credibility because he had served more than one administration. Now after he actually helped give Obama wings, he wants to say "Don't blame me, I never agreed with any of it". I'm not yet ready to forget.

[mikey_hates_everything]

That “a while” thing gets me. As a former DCI, Gates knew darn well that anyone who pulled the stunts Obama and his flunkies did in disclosing (or not) Obama’s past would have NEVER gotten cleared to be a CIA employee or contractor. So why was it ok to be President?

[JLAGRAYFOX]

Not interested in the what & why Gates did this? I suspect what Gates has said and written is the absolute truth about Obama, Biden & Clinton!!! So....i’ll get the point quickly. Obama & Biden shoud be forced to resign by the Democrat Party. If the Democrat Party cannot get Obama/Biden to resign....then, the Democrat Party should impeach the both of them. They are both traitors and enemies of the state. They have sent American military men & women into battle, in harm’s, without their support. I sincerly hope the next time that Obama/Biden/Clinton goes before our troops they get booed of the stage!!! We....as a nation must be totally insane to sustain this kind of of anti-American leadership and direction. Shame on you Americans!!!

I suspect there are many others that feel as Bob Gates does.....but they did not have the guts, dtermination and honor to tell the truth about these elitist tyrants, Obama, Biden, Clinton, etc. Fact is: the Democrat Party should be destroyed politically come November, 2014!!! Wake up.....America......these eveil people are enemies of our great country!!!

Wiil some patriotic American of influence and political celebrity post a nationwide petition to Impeach Obama and Biden....hope so???

[nathanbedford]

Good post.

Let me accord Gates and Bush the benefit of all doubts and describe them as principled patriots motivated not by ideology but by patriotism and a keen sense of righteousness.

That assessment avoids charging them with being ideologues but it does not excuse them for naïveté. The shoe seems to fit Bush better than Gates. Bush, in my judgment, operated as a Christian determined to fulfill his duty and equally determined to eschew self inflation. His Christian sense of modesty brought him to a point where he failed to fight his corner, failed to impose discipline on his party, misunderstood the real evil inherent in his enemies, and abandoned his party. These missteps and omissions were motivated out of high Christian beliefs but bore decaying fruit.

In the end, his approval ratings were in the tank, his party was on the run, his support in Congress virtually nonexistent, his reputation in the country for decency temporarily destroyed, and, worse, his war aims in limbo. Finally, Bush's reluctance to confront political and electoral realities opened the door to Barack Obama so wide that he was escorted into office with control both houses of Congress, a servile media, and no effective oversight. Small wonder Bush's policies in Iraq and Afghanistan did not survive.

A president who conducts foreign policy must do so in the lights of a realistic domestic policy. Bush simply failed to do this.

Gates professes shock that the president of United States and his Secretary of State, Bitch Clinton, would confess in his presence that their positions on Afghanistan were dictated not by the national interest of the United States but by their own selfish election considerations. Duh?

Gates can hardly claim the excuse of naïveté. Head of the CIA, NSA, Secretary of Defense, himself a congressman, he had been around and he survived in these positions by virtue of his Darwinian survivability in bureaucracies. It is all well and good to wax indignant under your breath, to display your self-righteousness years later in your memoirs, but if you are a man so terribly affected by the prayers of a mother sending her son off to war and you claim never to have forgotten your encounter with her, you act while you still have the power to protect her son.

Gates is telling us in effect that he is shocked because he observes the foreign policy of the United States being run out of the Oval Office as though it were a Chicago precinct. What the hell did he expect? Did he really think that Barack Obama was anything other than an ideologue? A Manchurian Marxist? An opportunist and a mountebank?

Did he have any reason whatsoever to think that Bitch Clinton as Secretary of State would behave in any way more honorably than she did in running a war room whose purpose was to spare her husband impeachment for felonies committed in office by destroying the lives of innocent female victims of her husband's social pathology? Did he expect her to transform herself seamlessly from sluts and nuts to Secretary of State?

John McCain calls Obama fit for office in 2008 and even forbade his followers to use even of his opponent's middle name. Mitt Romney is incapable except for one debate to indict Obama for his really dreadful performance and frightening ideology. Now Gates, years after he surrenders power to do anything about it, professes indignation but indignation spread of oh so evenhandedly among politicians of all stripes.

Gates is not naïve, Gates' problem is that he has no party, no ideology, no matrix upon which to judge malefactors like Obama and Clinton except his own ad hoc sense of righteousness. That simply does not work when the other side is utterly lacking in decency. When will these Rinos confront the reality that they are fighting evil and not playing parlor games?

[moovova]

“Thus his book.”

Has Mr. Gates been making the rounds and doing interviews at the usual Book Sell-a-Thon stations lately? (I don’t watch Fox anymore.)

[Sequoyah101]

Interesting I suppose but just how many exposes do we need to know that obastard is a real SOB bent on destroying the country and hateful to every traditional institution that holds the nation dear and that he loathes our men in uniform.

Gates may have kept his mouth shut knowing that his successor would only make things worse... and he has. The military is now a full fledged homo loving camp of fairys and toadies bucking for a star that would never get one in a rational world. A once honorable institution has turned to debauchery and is not able to fill its original mission.

Honor, Courage, Commitment.... no longer characteristics for merit in the military. The metrics have changed and we will suffer for this at the hands of our enemies.

[Mr Rogers]

Gates offers a glowing appraisal of Clinton, who he says is “smart, idealistic but pragmatic, tough-minded, indefatigable, funny, a very valuable colleague, and a superb representative of the United States all over the world,” but the president comes in for harsher criticism.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/367797/gates-hillary-obama-admitted-they-opposed-surge-political-reasons-alec-torres

Gates is an idiot. If he had integrity, he would have quit. But based on some classified stuff that went on that I knew about, he was a lying, self-serving jerk while SecDef. Now we know he was a lying, self-serving SecDef with ego but no balls.