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”…..
