TPMmuckraker points to this article by Jeff Stien on Gates at CQ Quarterly, which highlights some of Gates' presumed difficulties, such as the cooking of intelligence to conform with political beliefs and a misinterpretation of the signs pointing to the collapse of the Soviet Union, which the neocons have promptly asserted as the proof of the effectiveness of their strategy of confrontation over appeasement.
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