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This post originally appeared on Slate.Like many peoplewith a strong view about Robert Gates new book,Duty,I have not read it. I did, however, attend a reporters breakfast hosted by theChristian Science Monitorwhere the former defense secretary spoke for an hour.Gates confirmedwhat was obvious from the excerpts of his book. His views about Presidents Obama and Bush are varied and complex and far more positive about both than the initial reports suggested. I have the growing feeling over the last week that my book has become like Lenin, he said. You can find in it whatever you want to support yo
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