History’s View of Robert Gates | FrontPage Magazine

As Secretary of Defense Robert Gates prepares to retire to private life—following 5 years as the head of the Department of Defense in both the Bush and Obama administrations—praise is being heaped on him by Democrats and Republicans alike. Herein a dissenting view. History will not be kind to Gates. Despite some noteworthy accomplishments, he will be remembered as the single most important facilitator of an Iranian regime with nuclear weapons. Future historians will compare him to Neville Chamberlain’s military advisers, who—like Gates—strongly opposed all forms of military intervention against the greatest potential danger of the century: An aggressively armed Nazi Germany in the 20th century; a nuclear armed Iran in the 21st century."