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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (164082)	1/7/2014 10:47:24 PM
From: jlallen	3 Recommendations Recommended By locogringo Sedohr Nod TideGlider Respond to of 224749

So what? LOL!! Odumbo and Biden are incompetent idiots...we don't need Gates to tell us that....

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (164082)	1/8/2014 5:56:42 AM
From: tonto	2 Recommendations Recommended By locogringo TideGlider Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224749

Wrong? Gate's comments were fair in recommending better knowing with whom they were dealing with...he used several conditionals in what he wrote. It was not at all a firm position. Among the hardliners, Robert Gates, then the deputy CIA director for intelligence, felt that Gorbachev was a tough guy wearing a well-tailored suit. Underneath, he saw trouble, and did not want to be fooled. In the weeks before Gorbachev took power, in February 1985, Gates wrote a memo to one of the CIA's leading Soviet experts. "I don't much care for the way we are writing about Gorbachev," Gates said. "We are losing the thread of what toughness and skill brought him to where he is. This is not some Gary Hart or Lee Iacocca. We have to give the policy-makers a clearer view of the kind of person they may be facing." Gates said he felt that Gorbachev was the heir to Andropov, the former KGB chief, and to Suslov, the onetime orthodox ideology chief. Thus, Gates said, Gorbachev "could not be all sweetness and light. These had been two of the hardest cases in recent Soviet history. They would not a wimp under their wing."