[quote][b][url=/v3/forum/histoire-et-actualit%C3%A9s-45/topic/conflit-en-afghanistan-713/?post=94973#post-94973]nico2[/url] a dit le 08/01/2014 à 23:12 :[/b]

[url=http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-pn-gates-book-obama-20140107,0,1276282.story]Ex-Defense Secretary Robert Gates has harsh words for Obama and Biden[/url]

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[quote]President Obama became progressively more pessimistic about prospects for a successful ending to the war in Afghanistan, goaded by inexperienced White House advisors and a dislike of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, according to his former Defense secretary, Robert M. Gates.

In a forthcoming memoir that mixes strong praise with scathing criticism for Obama and his administration, Gates says Obama doubted his own policy after he decided to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan early in his first term. The president became "skeptical if not outright convinced it would fail," a stance that Gates says led him to consider resigning in September 2009. (...)

He recounts sitting in a White House meeting in March 2011 in which Obama sharply criticized Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, the commander he had chosen to turn around the Afghan war, and voiced deep skepticism about working with Karzai.

"As I sat there, I thought, the president doesn't trust his commander, can’t stand Karzai, doesn’t believe in his own strategy and doesn’t consider the war to be his. For him it’s all about getting out," (...)

The White House sought to play down Gates' harsh comments. In a statement, spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said Obama "deeply appreciates Bob Gates’ service" and "welcomes differences of view among his national security team, which broaden his options and enhance our policies."

In one example of those differences, Gates called Obama’s decision to order the Bin Laden raid, despite doubts about whether the Al Qaeda leader was at the compound in Abbottabad, "one of the most courageous decisions I had ever witnessed in the White House."

Gates had favored using heavy bombers to obliterate the compound. The option was less risky because it did not involve putting troops on the ground, but might have left doubts about whether Bin Laden was in fact killed.

Gates writes that, unlike Bush, Obama lacked "passion, especially when it came to the two wars." (...)[/quote]

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