When Obama nominated Chuck Hagel as SecDef I was very pleased…..for one, he and I served in the same unit in Vietnam and two, he was a sergeant in the Army…..for me that made him more than qualified because he was not some bureaucrat that spent his time behind a desk and never tasted what war feels like close up…..plus I was disappointed when he resigned his position but I understand why….he could not be part of this war in Syria….he preferred another approach than the “big stick” philosophy.
He has weighed in on whether the US and NATO should get involved ass deep in the Syrian civil war…
Former SecDef Chuck Hagel believes that NATO should not have a military role in Syria.
“I would be very careful to advise a president of the United States to get NATO actively involved in Syria.” Hagel said Tuesday at the Atlantic Council. “I think we can help, we should help, and many of us are, in our own way. But that problem in the Middle East is so deep, so wide, so combustible, so rift with so many uncontrollable elements, that it ain’t gonna be solved by NATO.”
Source: Chuck Hagel: NATO Should Not Enter Syria
Hagel makes a lot of sense and should have been allowed to make his mark on US foreign policy…..but sadly it was more important to make the M-IC happy so Hagel had to go to make room for a “yes man”…….Carter.
America lost the best man for the job of SecDef……but that is the way we do things…..replace competence with a “yes man”…..
Absolutely.
Ditto….from the other side of the pond!
Hagel was a voice of reason that NO one wanted to hear,.
yes, all external agencies should ideally exit Syria.
Should we allow the Syrians to sort this out for themselves?
Yes, no external agency has the Moral Right to interfere in a Sovereign Country.Syria is an ancient land and survived for more centuries than those meddling.
I totally agree…..Syrians are not being asked what they want….
yes they don’t matter for the powerful
And that is just flat wrong…..they should be the only voice…
true , but the world is not perfect
and seldom tries to be….that is the problem
ha ha
Chuck Hagel is mentioned in this piece…
American musicians are ‘scared sh*tless’ their careers ‘will be destroyed’ if they speak up for Palestinians — Roger Waters http://mondoweiss.net/2016/05/musicians-destroyed-palestinians/ via @sharethis
Never stopped me…and that could be why most think tanks are afraid to let me do research….LOL