Defense

Obama speaks out on Gates’ book

President Barack Obama says former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is a good friend and he did an outstanding job while at the Pentagon. He's was responding t...

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January 14, 2014 5:02 pm

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President Barack Obama says former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is a good friend and he did an outstanding job while at the Pentagon. He’s was responding to questions about Gates’ book, “Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary of War,” saying that his administration’s policy in Afghanistan was the right one. In his book, Gates questions Obama’s commitment to his war policy and talks about discontent among the team that made key decisions about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Obama says that part of his job as commander in chief is to, quote, “sweat the details” on policies that send men and women into harms’ way.