Bob Gates, Secretary of Defense was chosen by President Obama to stay on from the Bush administration, much to the consternation of many progressives. Time has shown that he has been willing and able to carry out the Presidents wishes and in many minds is one of the best Secretary of Defenses in decades. Yet who in the world would expect him to praise a President who is a Democrat as loudly as this:
"I've worked for a lot of these guys and this is one of the most courageous calls -- decisions -- that I think I've ever seen a president make," he said during a CBS "60 Minutes" interview that aired Sunday night. "It was a very gutsy call."
This is almost unheard of, and no one would have blamed him if as a republican he kept quiet about his opinion on the raid or just said that it was a good call. He continued to discuss his own reservations which shows us more about how uncertain it was and how much Obama staked his Presidency on this decision
""I was very concerned, frankly," he said. "My worry was the level of uncertainty about whether bin Laden was even in the compound. There wasn't any direct evidence that he was there. It was all circumstantial, but it was the best information that we had since probably 2001."
On CBS he also said this, one I think we can all agree with.
"In my opinion, any future defense secretary who advises the president to again send a big American land army into Asia or into the Middle East or Africa should have his head examined , as General MacArthur so delicately put it," Gates said.
Link: http://www.cnn.com/...