Ex-Pentagon Chief Calls for ‘Not-Obama’ as Next President
10th December 2015
Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates has been on a tear denouncing his most recent commander-in-chief, President Barack Obama.
His latest salvo came last week in a blistering op-ed in the Washington Post. Gates painted a picture of what our next president must be simply by listing, bullet point by bullet point, everything that Obama is not.
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His thinly veiled critique comes as many express frustration over a lack of leadership from a lame-duck president who seems more preoccupied with checking off boxes in his “legacy” agenda — Pacific trade deal, Iran nuclear deal, any sort of climate-change deal (regardless of how meaningless) — than in putting out the fires of successive crises abroad.
This frustration culminated in widespread criticism of Obama’s prime-time address Sunday on terrorism, which, clocking in at 13 minutes and coming four days after the San Bernardino, Calif., shootings, seemed to many to be too little, too late.