He may NOT be so much Obama’s guy after all.
Other than him indeed being a partisan Republican way back in college (blogged in my archive, click the “Gates” tag below), he and Obama had differences. Gates last comments on record are against a swift pullout from Iraq, for example.
The Iraq SOFA would appear to make such differences moot, but the amount of loopholes it has say, maybe not.
But that’s not all. The two have some differences on approaching Iran, for example. (Of course, Gates, an “unfingered, unnamed, unindicted co-conspirator” in Iran-Contra, might be justified in claiming to know Iran and what’s up.)
So, let’s not take Obama’s latest “creative centrism” move as a sign of either “Change™” or much of anything else other than politics as usual.
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