hi j-t,
i'm not convinced. obama has already changed the way the us addresses military matters.
but where contrary advice is required, hagel just mirrored the mainstream.
he was half a decade late admitting the reason the us was in iraq was always predicated on the flow of oil.
he went with the popular flow all the way along.
i don't see him as a strong candidate. admittedly, i know little about him. but the things i do know, he got wrong.
at least bush had the balls not to give up having got into iraq.
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