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ISIS' First Administration Casualty: Chuck Hagel Resigns Under Pressure From Obama
It appears some folks might be scapegoated... As NY Times reports, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is stepping down, under presssure. President Obama made the decision to ask his defense secretary — the sole Republican on his national security team — to step down last Friday, as a recognition that the threat from the Islamic State would require a different kind of skills than those that Mr. Hagel has, and that his team has struggled to stay ahead of an onslaught of global crises.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is stepping down under pressure, the first cabinet-level casualty of the collapse of President Obama’s Democratic majority in the Senate and a beleaguered national security team that has struggled to stay ahead of an onslaught of global crises.
The president, who is expected to announce Mr. Hagel’s resignation in a Rose Garden appearance on Monday, made the decision to ask his defense secretary — the sole Republican on his national security team — to step down last Friday after a series of meetings over the past two weeks, senior administration officials said.
The officials described Mr. Obama’s decision to remove Mr. Hagel, 68, as a recognition that the threat from the Islamic State would require a different kind of skills than those that Mr. Hagel was brought on to employ.
In his less than two years on the job, Mr. Hagel’s detractors said he struggled to inspire confidence at the Pentagon in the manner of his predecessors, especially Robert Gates. But several of Mr. Obama’s top advisers have over the past months also acknowledged privately that the president did not want another high-profile defense secretary in the manner of Mr. Gates, who went on to write a memoir of his years with Mr. Obama in which he sharply criticized the president. Mr. Hagel, they said, in many ways, was exactly the kind of Defense Secretary which the president, after battling the military during his first term, wanted.
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He raised the ire of the White House in August as the administration was ramping up its strategy to fight the Islamic State, directly contradicting the president, who months before had likened the Sunni militant group to a junior varsity basketball squad. Mr. Hagel, facing reporters in his now-familiar role next to General Dempsey, called the Islamic State an “imminent threat to every interest we have,” adding, “This is beyond anything that we’ve seen.” White House officials later said they viewed those comments as unhelpful, although the administration still appears to be struggling to define just how large is the threat posed by the Islamic State.
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Love that bit about telling the truth being insubordination.
I'm afraid that Hagel's resignation is just the start of the 24-month unraveling of this administration. Wait until you find our what was in Lois Lerner's email log......
Unraveling implies there was something there before...
The whole thing was just a yarn...
'twas never raveled in the first place.
He probably didn't feel comfortable going along with ZIO USSA plans for WWIII
lots of military getting cut, nuke forces top guys ..hagel had limited shelf life, and can be scape goated. nobody wants to work for the mulatto, only the lowest ability power hungry sociopaths, I expect the first female sec of def, hillary is too smart to take that bait, how about that dyke rachel madcow girl on cnbc?
Is a female enough?
Don't she have to be black, too?
Moar war, moar drone,
- The Jewish State in the Levant is a burden we shouldn’t have to bear
Isn't it possible....
America and Israel are playing good asshole/bad asshole in the Nuclear Iran negotiations?
That America has absolutely no interest in making a deal with Iran, unless it gets all of what it wants? That obnoxious Israel is only a willing foil to make America look honorable and fair?
That Iran's nuclear ambitions notwithstanding, regime change in Tehran was always our goal for Iran, and its 2nd or 3rd largest oil reserves in the world?
Rumor has is it that Hagel refused to raise his right arm in salute and say “… Heil Obama!…”
There's over a 100% chance that Hagel quit and agreed to the cover story that Black Mischief fired him.
The Obama administration's modus operandi is to win today's news cycle. Thus, it is no coincidence that Hagel's firing happened the same day as the collapse of the Iranian nuclear talks.
Hagel says ISIS is a threat.
Obola says ISIS not a threat.
ISIS turns out to be a threat.
Who gets canned?
Hagel.
Makes sense.
Hagel did two felony grade offenes.
1. Was correct.
2. Demonstrated Obola's competence and thus embarrassed Dear Ruler.
(likely will be eaten by dogs)
I've got it!
Secretary of Defense Hillary Rodham Clinton!
I am s-o-o-o-o-o smart.
If you give someone a boobie prize do you have to give them actual boobs?
Bye you worthless, drunkard, incompetent, sellout piece of shit.
Hmm,
CAIR USA and the Muslim American Society have said that being critical of Muslim extremism is "Islamaphobic."
The UAE has called them both terrorist groups and the Arab League has agreed with the UAE.
Does that make the UAE and the Arab League Islamaphobic?
Does that mean that the US State Dept, which supports CAIR USA - is a terrorist sympathizer?
we have israelis running our banks. we have an israeli running our state department. we need an israeli running our military. heckuvajob!
Secretary of Defense Jarret it is a two-fer that way first/first
/S
Why is Iran so silent on the origins of ISIS anyway?
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They're smart enough to recognize a US project when they see one. No sense in repeatedly stating the obvious.
They're afraid of more sanctions if they rat out Obama.
The last sentence of the article suggests Hagel merely became a salesman for the military-industrial complex, a point with which I agree.
Not surprised. Hegel always struck me as the best of an admittedly very bad lot.
the BIS needed anyone with a r behind it's name to cut pentagon, and military personell, while backing the mic.
hagels trouble was he thought he really was SOD, and spoke without telepromter.
But at least he didn't post without spelcheckr.
ISIS holds lots of nuclear waste material that they discovered.That's what the real concern is along with holding sophisticated U.S. military equipment that moderstes from Syria keep feeding them.Most likely just for money.The WhiteHouse is paranoid of what's called "a dirty bomb."I'd be very afrais too after what's gone on in Iraq and Afghanistan.Some of the radioactive isotopes have a half life of anywhere from 10,000 to 30,000 years.The other most likely item that has pissed off these guys is being double-crossed by the CIA on a lot of big dope deals.