Obama's Sec Def Pick? I'm U.S. Senator, not Israeli Senator (Hagel)

Breitbart ^ | 12/16/12 | Politico

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POLITICO: In an interview with Aaron David Miller for his book published by Random House, "The Much Too Promised Land," Sen. Chuck Hagel spoke about Israel

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Well, if the issue should arise again

The issue never arose in the first place.

Hagel is disguising his animus against Israel by claiming that his animus is just American patriotism.

That's nonsense, and the last refuge of a scoundrel.

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There is just nothing controversial about what the man said.

That's nonsense.

What Secretary of Defense, before he even starts his career in the role, begins by pointedly announcing that he will not have any partiality to one specific American ally?

What if he had said: "If I'm SecDef, America will come first - not South Korea!" or "If I'm SecDef, America will come first - not Poland!" or "If I'm SecDef, America will come first - not Colombia!"

No one would applaud, they would be bewildered by the ridiculous specificity of those non sequiturs and rightly wonder if that nominee had a soft spot for North Korean communism, or for Russian hypernationalism or for the Chavez regime.

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I suspect that as far as God is concerned that is all that matters.

You join a long list of those who suspect that they know the mind of God.

I suspect that you do not possess the knowledge you assure yourself of.

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I suspect, unlike you, I do not know the mind of God.

I made no claim to actual knowledge, only to a suspicion, and that only based on how mild his documented responses were to the slightest transgression.

How did Moses earn 40 years of wandering in the desert only to die in sight of his goal agin?

He hit the rock with his staff, dinhe?