Well, if the issue should arise again, I want and expect every American politician to make it as clear as he did that their first loyalties are to the United States. If you feel that being loyal to America first has some undesirable implications for any other country, so be it.
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.