I suspect that Gates was not too excited about the misadventure in Iraq and may have even realized the winner of that war would be Iran. And I will give him the benifit of doubt – even if he had been critical of the Iraq invasion he wouldn’t have gotten in air time and no one would have be listening. Like Brent Scowcroft he was one of the “realists” so despised by the neocon driven Bush W. administration.
If we avoid another Vietnam/Irag/Afghanistan it will be because of economic realities not some sudden sanity. The military industrial complex is still in charge and will be calling the shots until the trough runs dry. The good news is the trough is dry now.
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