Obama's Fake War-gasm

In "Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary of War", Robert Gates says that Obama was sceptical that his administration's Afghan strategy would succeed from 2009 through 2011. "I never doubted [his] support for the troops, only his support for their mission," he writes about Obama during the height of the U.S. troop surge in Afghanistan during 2010.
Gates was Pentagon chief under Presidents Obama and George Bush. He was the first Pentagon head to serve presidents of different parties before leaving political office in 2011.
Meanwhile, John McCain, a U.S. Republican Senator, has also said that the Obama administration failed in its support of both Iraq and Afghanistan, allowing al-Qaida's terrorist network to flourish once again. READ MORE