The president's man in Tehran was feeling the pressure and needed reassurance. On 12 January 1979, General Robert "Dutch" Huyser wrote to Harold Brown, US secretary of defense, and General David Jones, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to make sure he knew what they wanted him to do.
Obama's ex-Defense Secretary Robert Gates wrote a damning assessment of Biden in his memoirs in 2015. His scathing verdict has, sadly, been vindicated by the president's awful decision to throw Afghans to the wolves.
Having held the post of defense secretary between 2006 and 2011, Gates once famously declared that Joe Biden "has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades