US President Barack Obama defended his strategy in the Afghan war mission after former Pentagon chief Robert Gates said the president lacked passion for military action. Gates sparked a Washington firestorm when he suggested in his new memoir that Obama became disillusioned with the troop surge strategy, and lost confidence in his troop commanders and Afghan President Hamid Karzai. But in his first public comments on the criticisms, Obama said he “continued to have faith” in the US mission in Afghanistan. Speaking on NBC’s “Today Show,” the former Pentagon chief said his memoir was hijacked by those pushing a political agenda adding that he “actually agreed with virtually every decision President Obama made.” But Gates made no apologies for his blunt criticism of Vice President Joe Biden whom he said was wrong about every major foreign policy issue over the past four decades.
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