[[Robert Gates]], who served as Defense Secretary in both [[Republican]] and [[Democrat]] administrations and began serving on the National Security Council one year after Joe Biden was first elected to the Senate in 1983, said of former the [[Vice President]] in 2014 and reiterated it in 2020,
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{{Cquote|I think he has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.<ref>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/05/13/gates_stands_by_statement_that_biden_has_been_wrong_on_nearly_every_major_foreign_policy_question.html</ref>}}