A couple of years ago when Obama announced his next Sec of State would be Chuck Hagel I was thrilled…..for one I knew of Hagel in Vietnam we served in the same unit 9th infantry division…..I was a LRRP for the 3rd brigade and he was in the first I believe…..we were not friends but I knew of his service while there…..and finally he had been an NCO in Vietnam and I thought that it would make him more alert to the situations he would have to face…..I was disappointed when he resigned and I said then that there was more to the story than the media was told…….

After a couple of years Hagel has spoken up…..about time……

The uppity dips in the administration apparently looked down on a guy who was a NCO……or something…..

He has some good advice for the next prez…….

When the former Republican Nebraska senator was offered the job of Defense secretary in 2012, his “only request was that he be given access to the president,” according to the article. However, Hagel later found that access did not necessarily mean a one-on-one meeting in the Oval Office with Obama — a setting in which he preferred to give his advice. “There were times that I had called over and asked to have a private meeting with the president, and when I showed up, there were others in the room,” he told the outlet. Hagel even wrote a memo to privately express his mounting concern about the lack of a Syria policy — a move that was not well received by the administration and seen as an attempt to dictate policy or blame others, according to the article.

Source: Chuck Hagel to the next president: ‘Listen’ | TheHill

Some excellent advice……but that depends if they truly want this thing to work…..you cannot start with a conclusion and work the facts so they fit your predetermined conclusion……that is what think tanks do…..and it is wrong.  Wise decision cannot be made if it is about who makes the most cash off of that decision.

I still believe that if Hagel had been given a chance he would have made one of the best Sec of state this country has ever nominated….after all he was a Vietnam vet…..someone who knew the horrors of war but he was not a CEO of Boeing or Northrop or Halleburton or any other M-IC fat cat…..so that made him an outsider and unacceptable to most of the good old boyz in Foggy Bottom…..

There is also a very good interview with Hagel that begs to be read……

Source: Former US defense chief: Obama ‘hurt credibility’ by not bombing Syria in 2013 | US news | The Guardian

Hagel is a good man that deserved better from this country….but what can expect from a country that cares so little about the vets or their opinions….for that matter…..