It was May, just two weeks after Joe Biden announced his 2020 presidential bid, and Robert Gates sat down for an interview on CBS’s Face the Nation. The host, Margaret Brennan, asked the former secretary of defense whether Biden would be an “effective” commander in chief after reading a memorable line from Gates’s memoir: “I think [Biden] has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.” Gates paused and let out a long, audible sigh. “I don’t know,” said Gates, who headed the Pentagon under both presidents George W. Bush and …read more
Source: The Washington Free Beacon
