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Steyn on Hagel
From TFA:
There are over 300 million Americans, and another 20 million more Undocumented-Americans about to be fast-tracked down the soi-disant path to citizenship. Surely, from this vast talent pool, it should be possible to find someone whos sufficiently interested in running the planets biggest military not to present himself on the world stage as a woozy, unfocused stumblebum. In an exquisite touch, responding to reports that Hagel was ill-prepared, someone in the White House leaked that he had been thoroughly coached. In other words, dont blame us: We put him through the federally mandated Confirmation Hearing for Dummies course. He doesnt have to be a competent defense secretary; he just has to play one on TV for a couple of hours. But even thats too much to ask of an increasingly dysfunctional political system: The Senate disdains to pass a budget, 70 percent of U.S .Treasury debt is bought by the Federal Reserve, month-long negotiations to cut spending turn out in the final deal to increase spending . . . and the presidents choice of defense secretary tells the world he has no idea what our policy on Iran is.
Hagel may know nothing about Iran, but hes an incisive expert on America.
Posted by: badanov 2013-02-02 |
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