Gates spent about three decades in the CIA. He was introspective during an interview with CBS' "60 Minutes." He was asked by Anderson Cooper, the correspondent, about his 2014 memoir called "Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War."
Cooper stressed a part in the book where Gates called Biden a man of integrity but wrote that he thinks he's "been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades."
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"I think he's gotten a lot wrong," Gates responded, before pointing out Biden's opposition to "every one of Ronald Reagan's military programs to contest the Soviet Union," the first Gulf War, and even stated their disagreements regarding Afghanistan during the Obama administration.
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He said he thinks Biden made a bad choice in Afghanistan, in the manner he handled the departure.
Biden has backed his administration and basically said there was no easy way out of the nation after two decades.
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"When I hear we could have, should have continued the so-called low-grade effort in Afghanistan, at low risk to our service members, at low cost," Biden said. "I don't think enough people understand how much we've asked of the 1 percent of this country who put that uniform on."
Gates, who is 78 now, told "60 Minutes" that he lives in Washington state to get as far away from D.C. as possible but indicated that it was difficult to watch Kabul's departure and the ensuing disorder. He said President Trump did not plan well, and once Biden said there would be a "firm deadline date, that's the point at which I think they should have begun bringing those people out."
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"You have to be pretty naïve not to assume things were going to go downhill once that withdrawal was complete," he said.
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This is not the first time that Gates slammed the U.S.' handling of the Afghanistan war. He wrote in his memoir that in 2010, he was persuaded that Obama "doesn't believe in his own strategy, and doesn't consider the war to be his. For him, it's all about getting out."
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He made it evident that he never questioned Obama's support for the troops, just the mission. The Washington Post reported at the time that it is unusual for a defense secretary to "publish such an antagonistic portrait of a sitting president."
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