2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumNeocons push against Chuck Hagel
By Dana Milbank, Published: December 18
After word leaked from the White House late last week that Chuck Hagel was in line to become the next secretary of defense, Bill Kristols Weekly Standard manned the Patriot missile batteries to shoot down that trial balloon.
The neoconservative journal, no fan of the iconoclastic former Republican senator, published a smear under the headline: Senate aide: Send us Hagel and we will make sure every American knows he is an anti-Semite.? In the posting, this anonymous aide went on to accuse Hagel of the worst kind of anti-Semitism there is. As evidence, the article included a doctored quotation from Hagel referring to the Jewish lobby.
Other right-wing publications and conservative Zionist groups inevitably joined the chorus, including a column by Bret Stephens in the Wall Street Journal saying Hagels prejudice has an especially ripe odor.
The Hagel hit is wrong on the merits, but its particularly egregious because the former senator from Nebraska is among the best and bravest public servants. He was an enlisted man in Vietnam, earning two Purple Hearts in jungle combat. In his legislative career, he was a powerful voice against the chicken hawks who have recklessly sent American troops to their deaths; he became one of the most outspoken critics of George W. Bushs handling of the Iraq war.
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atreides1
(16,082 posts)I don't give two shits about what Kristol or any other radical pro-Israel group has to say...if someone had to doctor a quote, it shows that they don't have anything.
And why are these Zionsit groups hiding here in the US where it's safe and comfortable...shouldn't they be over in Israel leading the fight, from the front?
Personally I think Hagel is the right choice for the position, and Israel and any other country that has a problem with it can go pound sand...