Robert Gates, who was U.S. Defense Secretary from 2006-11, did not join the series of warhawk U.S. military officials who find the U.S. National Guard so inhuman and threatening to human liberty when called out by President Donald Trump.
Gates was asked on Sunday by the NBC host Chuck Todd, whether his opinion of the U.S. president has changed since September 2016, when he described Trump as “stubbornly uninformed about the world and how to lead.” He replied, “I would say this, Chuck. First of all, unlike his three predecessors — and I write about this in the book Exercise of Power: American Failures, Successes, and a New Path Forward in the Post-Cold War World — at least he hasn’t started any new wars, and he has robustly funded the military”.
