Iran licks its chops over Chuck Hagel, Obama's anti-Israel choice for Defense Secretary

Iran's state-controlled PressTV has this: "Obama to name anti-Israeli Hagel as Defense Secretary: Reports," January 5 (thanks to Pamela Geller):

All signs indicate that US President Barack Obama is poised to nominate anti-Israel ex-Senator Chuck Hagel as the next defense secretary soon, informed sources say....

In recent days, Hagel's top advisers have received “messages of reassurance” amid the critics’ campaign to derail his nomination, the source said.

Hagel’s nomination is expected to spark a row in the Senate. Many pro-Israeli groups and neo-conservatives have spouted diatribe against Hagel over his criticism of Washington’s anti-Iran policies and Israel’s sway over the US political arena.

The top nominee for the post of defense secretary was the first Republican senator to publicly criticize the war in Iraq, calling it the worst foreign policy blunder since the Vietnam War, and he has consistently opposed any plan to launch military strike against Iran.

While Hagel was considering a presidential bid in 2007, he was criticized by the National Jewish Democratic Council which said the senator “has a lot of questions to answer about his commitment to Israel.”

In 2009, Hagel signed a statement calling on Obama to encourage a unity government between the two major Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas.

Pundits believe the appointment of Hagel could spark tensions between Washington and Tel Aviv, but they predict no considerable trouble in his confirmation process in the Congress as he enjoys bipartisan support.

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The choice for CIA director cannot be overlooked:
major toidi Brennan. He will probably give the muslim brotherhood (a fully secular group according to him) the chickens and the rest of the coop.

Yes, with delusional self-styled Islamic spokesman John Brennan (see JW archives) as head of the CIA, our security will now be even more compromised.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/01/07/obama-to-court-controversy-with-chuck-hagel-and-john-brennan-picks-for-top-defence-cia-jobs/

All in line with "change"and"forward" Most people don't know or don't care that this one nation under God is going in the wrong direction and by now there is no way to turn back .

..."and he has consistently opposed any plan to launch military strike against Iran."

obama and hagel are quite a dangerous pair ...

I am 99% certain I just heard the BBC newsreader say that John Brennan is to lead the "Criminal Intelligence Agency".

"has consistently opposed any plan to launch military strike against Iran..."

Historical speaking, obama has strengthened his defense for having allowed under his watch the undoing of our National security for perpetuity: "I only followed the best advice given to me by my advisors" (Kerry, Hagel).

Unfortunately, both advisors knowledge and vision is confined narrowly by the tall grass of Vietnam

With a shared and almost identical world view seared in deeply by their Vietnam experience, Kerry and Hagel will assuredly give obama the expected advice wich he only wants to hear: Appease , runaway, select any contingency, any but not...!, so long as for now we don’t get into another Vietnam.
Billy Mitchell must be rolling in his grave.

And now—grotesquely—Obama is claiming that anyone who expresses any reservations over his appointments is "compromising security".

This would be laughable if it weren't so disturbing.

I think that every US president since Johnson has entertained the notion of “going down in history” as the president that brought peace to the middle east. Most of them, to one degree or another saw the wisdom in helping to protect the only democracy in the region. At one end of the spectrum was LBJ who was a great fan of the Jewish people and a strong supporter of Israel. On the other end, we have the Amir of Chicago BHO.

I genuinely think he wants to be the afore mentioned historical figure. I just don’t think that it matters to him which side comes out on top when the last shot is finally fired. I’ll even go so far as to posit that BHO thinks that peace without Israel altogether is easier to achieve and an acceptable outcome.

With all that in mind, nominating Hagel makes perfect sense.

what the redoubtable 'Hugh Fitzgerald', former prolific and erudite contributor to this website (both in posted articles and on the Comments floor) had to say just now upon this very topic.


http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/45556

Monday, 7 January 2013

'Obama's Message To Iran'.

If you are a longtime regular here and are familiar with Hugh's work, you will need no encouragement to click and read.

If you don't know 'Hugh Fitzgerald' at all: do *please* click and read, and find out.

I disagree with most of what Juan Cole says with regard to the mideast, however this piece why Hagel should be confirmed as Sec of Def is persuasive.
Top Ten Reasons Chuck Hagel Should be Secretary of Defense
http://www.juancole.com/2013/01/reasons-secretary-defense.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+juanc

Another very strong argument why Hagel would make a great Sec of def:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/01/07/why-hagel-matters.html

By the way, the leftards, so often demonized here, have voiced opposition to Brennan's nomination to head the CIA inasmuch as he was the hawkish designer of the drone program and is viewed by the left as too bellicose. Brennan and Hagel constitute a good balance between perceived hawkishness and doveness.

Re Juan Cole, something out of the jihadwatch archives that I commend to all who are new to this site and this subject.


http://www.jihadwatch.org/2006/04/fitzgerald-a-tribute-to-juan-cole.html


Is Juan Cole's wife - Shahin Malik - a Muslim or a non-Muslim?

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