Top Obama official's attack on Biden's foreign policy failures resurfaces after 3 US soldiers killed
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Former Obama Defense Secretary Robert Gates' past criticism of Joe Biden's foreign policy failures have resurfaced following the deaths of three U.S. soldiers at an outpost in Jordan.
Gates doubled down on those claims when asked about his book during a 2021 interview on CBS' "60 Minutes," saying, "I think he’s gotten a lot wrong." He then pointed to what he said was Biden’s opposition to "every one of Ronald Reagan’s military programs to contest the Soviet Union," the first Gulf War, and to their differences concerning the war in Afghanistan. Brandon Gillespie is an associate editor at Fox News. Follow him on X at @BGillespieAL.
Gates also said he believed Biden made a mistake in the way he handled the U.S. military's withdrawal from Afghanistan that same year.