If their intent really is to appoint Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense and to see him confirmed, the administration is doing a great job of rounding up support from a bipartisan swath of the Establishment. I don’t like the idea, personally, although there are certainly many worse alternatives to Hagel in both parties. Mostly, I just find the whole discussion depressing.
I don’t care that Hagel has been a fairly conservative Republican for his whole political career…Team of Rivals, and all that. I’m willing to forgive him for being a homophobic jerk 15 years ago. I actually like that his record on Israel makes the neo-conservatives squeal.
I just think he’s half a moron and that he has very little to offer. The whole debate around his nomination just shines a light on how stupid our foreign policy elites have become.
