Obie's incompetence may well be the reason there has been an inordinate exidous of senir General Staff officers. Who knows?Since he sat on his hands while all these things he claims to upset him so much were going on, continuing to carry the water for an administration he believed to be incompetent and cavalier in its treatment of people in harm's way, Gates has next to no credibility in any case, in my view.
Sorry that doesn't comport with your rather elementary either-or meme, but there it is.
Had he come forward with his concerns, he would have been branded a traitor, naturally. He would be another Edward Snowden. What happened to Stanley McChrystal when he said the same things about obama's incompetence?
How many people in the military, in government KNOW how bad obama is and don't say anything? They will never come forward to tell what they know or will wait until they have retired before they do.
By the same token, do you think Gates doesn't now have a great big target on his back right now? How feverishly do you imagine Holder's minions are working, trying to dig up any amount of dirt on him that they can?
The inordinate exodus has not been voluntary. obama has been quietly decapitating senior military for a long time. He's dismissed over 400 officers. They are given a choice, resign, retire or be fired. If they make too much of an issue, they are court martialed.