Hagel’s Views on Israel Aren’t the Only Issue

So now it’s official: Chuck Hagel, the former Republican senator, is President Obama’s pick to be the next Secretary of Defense. Ignoring complaints by certain pro-Israel and gay-rights groups, Obama appeared with Hagel at the White House and described him as “the leader who our troops deserve”—a man who would be the first enlisted soldier and the first Vietnam veteran to run the Pentagon.

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