The Inter Press Service News Agency has the article Gates Conceals Real Story of “Gaming” Obama on Afghan War by Gareth Porter.

The leaking to the news media of a politically damaging version of internal debate between the White House and the coalition pushing for a major escalation was nothing less than shot across the bow from Obama’s principal national security officials, including Petraeus, Mullen, Gates and Clinton. They were signaling to the president that he would incur a significant political cost if he rejected the McChrystal request.

I have often wondered if the Obama administration’s excessively belicose (warlike or hostile in manner or temperament) foreign policy was a product of his then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton or if it  came from Obama himself.

The fact that since John Kerry has taken over there have been a number of diplomatic breakthroughs makes me even more suspicious that Clinton was the one pushing the belicose strategy.

If this suspicion proves true, it would make me even less likely to want Hilary Clinton to be our next president.