Posted on 09/17/2016 7:52:06 PM PDT by Rennes Templar
Former Defense Secretary Bob Gates savaged Donald Trump in a Wall Street Journal op-ed published Saturday, declaring the Republican presidential nominee “unqualified and unfit to be commander-in-chief.”
“At least on national security, I believe Mr. Trump is beyond repair,” Gates wrote. “He is stubbornly uninformed about the world and how to lead our country and government, and temperamentally unsuited to lead our men and women in uniform.”
He offered some gentle criticism of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, urging her to be more candid on how she’d deal with China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran. He also suggested she suffers from “credibility issues” on national security and transparency, but he argued she “has time before the election to address forthrightly her trustworthiness, to reassure people about her judgment.”
Gates, now the chancellor at William & Mary, offered no such optimism on Trump, describing the GOP nominee as “naïve and irresponsible” on Russia, “oblivious” on the fight against ISIS, and “willfully ignorant” about foreign relations and the military.
“The world we confront is too perilous and too complex to have as president a man who believes he, and he alone, has all the answers and has no need to listen to anyone,” Gates wrote. “In domestic affairs, there are many checks on what a president can do; in national security there are few constraints. A thin-skinned, temperamental, shoot-from-the-hip and lip, uninformed commander-in-chief is too great a risk for America.”
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Trump is unqualified, but a homosexual drug-addict taqiyya Mooslim Saudi agent is perfectly qualified.
“Bob Gates”...when the word irrelevant just isn’t strong enough.
Didn't they say that about a guy in 1980?
Said from the man unfit to write code.
All of these MF’s are doing the hard right a favor by identifying themselves.
Bob who?
Sorry, I thought it said Bill Gates.
Yeah, she is unfit.
Thanks for the tip, Captain Obvious. Anyone with a brain can see Hillary has no business anywhere near anything.
Trump, on the other hand, is magnificent.
GO TRUMP!
...said the Globalist-bought pig.
Thought Gates was the only one worth a damn. Forget that. Obama is ok, but Trump isn’t... Dumber than dirt...
And this on the day Jugears had our military bomb Syrian troops who he said he thot were ISIS...right GATE...sit down an shup maroon...
Trump is not shoot from the hip, Gates is all words without substance.
And who makes him an authority on who is fit and who isn’t?
Foreign policy hawk.
I suspect he’s afraid Trump will clip their wings.
It has been reported that Gates coded in Basic.
Meaning that 0bozo is and the Hilldebeeste can???
The Intellectual Yet Idiot
https://medium.com/@nntaleb/the-intellectual-yet-idiot-13211e2d0577#.2hlj05wxm
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