Winslow Wheeler: Robert Gate’s Real Legacy — Dead, Mutated, Amputated, Wounded, “Etcetera”
Today’s fixation in Washington is former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates’ so called new revelation, breathlessly reported by the Washington Post (Robert Woodward), the New York Times (Thom Shanker) and others, that Barak Obama was not fully committed to George Bush’s (and Robert Gates’) war in Afghanistan, especially the troop surge there which Obama allowed …