Monday, December 21, 2015

Can all of Obama's ex-Secretaries of Defense be wrong?

"The two men also still have a friendly relationship, Hagel told Foreign Policy. Nonetheless, he just took several large steps down the same road as Robert Gates and Leon Panetta, who preceded Hagel at the Pentagon and later laid out their grievances in memoirs written after they left office."


Another secretary of defense talks?  "Secretary Hagel is now the latest to say something negative about President Obama's managerial style.  
Mr. Hagel now claims that the White House tried to destroy him:
In an interview with Foreign Policy magazine published Friday, he said he remains puzzled why White House officials tried to “destroy” him personally in his last days in office, adding that he was convinced the United States had no viable strategy in Syria and was particularly frustrated with National Security Adviser Susan Rice, who he said would hold meetings and focus on “nit-picky” details.
. . . "At the same time, there is a pattern here going back to Secretaries Gates and Panetta.
It goes like this:   
1) The secretary of defense makes a presentation, but the president does not want to hear it.
2)  The Secretary gets frustrated and decides to spend time with family.

Chuck Hagel’s Astonishing Admission on Syria  "The former defense secretary has exposed yet another example of the White House’s negligence."


. . . "However, the most revealing moment of the interview was not an instance of White House micromanagement, but rather indecisiveness. " . . .

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