Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates did Vice President Joe Biden and his presidential ambitions no favors in offering a summary of the politician’s foreign policy instincts.

“I think he has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades,” Gates wrote of Biden in his new book, Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War, according to the New York Times.

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