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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Hillary isn’t fit to command a Kindergarten class!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQZyQC2Mr5k
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3470677/posts
A whole bunch of globalist new world order folks have blowed up real good. Kissinger, Fallows, Gates... the list is growing.
Almost everyone over the age of 15 knows enough to think before hitting send or post buttons. We here on FR have all learned this lesson, and unless you are down about 1/2 a bottle of Jack Daniels at 3 AM, you apply discipline and rigor and ask yourself "do I really want the world to read this."
Since you are not inherently stupid, we have to ask, were you drunk or did you just have a Hillary moment? We are your friends and we want to know if an intervention is necessary before you do yourself more damage.
you are quite foolish in your ignorance
Dopey Bob
Gates sounds like Al Gore spouting the complex problem of climate change. The elites are saying that only they can solve all these problems the rest of us peons could not possibly understand. John Kerry speaks the same way when he says that a problem is multifaceted. In other words, don’t worry about the method of solving these problems as it’s just too complicated and that gives them the wiggle room to impose anything they want.
Bob ... Who?
Washed up. Has-been. Failed...like his boss.
This really does seem to be the case - even with foriegn leaders Merkel for example.
Maybe they meet our secret extra-terrestrial master overlords - Ancient Alien Theorist say ...
But seriously what is wrong with these people, how is it that folks can't be for free trade and still against NAFTA TPP GATT because its a big scam. Why is it all of sudden we don't understand economics - or are ignorant of the state of world?
And as far as being a water boy for the Bushes - I'm afraid I was guilty of playing Gunga Din for that corrupt family as well. I regret I ever supported any the Bushes - although not like you could have voted for Dukakis, Gore or Kerry
No - the emperor has no closes and finally somebody has had the courage to speak truth to power and that is Donald Trump
the guy probably, in occasional fits of sanity, says the same thing to the guy in the mirror.
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