Chuck Hagel is the right choice for Secretary of Defense. We need a U.S. defense secretary who is committed to Israel’s survival, as Hagel has repeatedly stated — but who is convinced that ensuring that survival doesn't mean having America go along with Israel’s self-destructive drift into settling the West Bank and obviating a two-state solution.
He has stated his preferences for finding a negotiated solution to Iran’s nuclear program, his willingness to engage Hamas to see if it can be moved from its extremism, his belief that the Pentagon budget must be cut, and his aversion to going to war again in places like Iraq and Afghanistan, because he has been to war and knows how much can go wrong. Hagel is out of the mainstream. That is exactly why his voice would be valuable right now
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