Position Crumbles Under Pressure: Secretary of Defense Hagel Submits Resignation

By Elizabeth Nelson

Can anyone really say they didn't see this one coming, seriously?  Much like Hillary, Rice and the rest of Obama's Administration, what benefit is Hagel to this Country - other than Comedic? I mean, remember all the "great" foreign advice he's given Obama over the years? 

Like when he accused "Israel of violating U.N. resolutions, called for U.S.-designated terrorist organization Hamas to be included in any peace negotiations, and described our ally Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a 'radical?'”

Oh he didn't stop there, this brain trust purported 2007 remark calling the "State Department an 'adjunct' of Israel" and said "that Israel has violated every UN resolution since 1967, that Israel has violated its agreements with the quartet, that it was risking becoming an apartheid state if it didn’t allow the Palestinians to form a state."

So now he's leaving, under pressure and I say good riddance to bad rubbish. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel handed in his resignation on Monday, the first cabinet-level casualty of the collapse of President Obama’s Democratic majority in the Senate and the struggles of his national security team to respond to an onslaught of global crises.

In announcing Mr. Hagel’s resignation from the State Dining Room on Monday, the president, flanked by Mr. Hagel and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., called Mr. Hagel critical to ushering the military “through a significant period of transition” and lauded “a young Army sergeant from Vietnam who rose to serve as America’s 24th secretary of defense.”

Mr. Obama called Mr. Hagel “no ordinary secretary of defense,” adding that he had “been in the dirt” of combat like no other defense chief. He said that Mr. Hagel would remain in the job until his successor is confirmed by the Senate. Read more WashingtonPost

I'll also remind you, this is the "no ordinary idiot that defended the decision to swap dangerous prisoners for self-proclaimed deserter, Bergdahl and celebrated his release with a victory lap. He's also the same idiot that proposed a "troop reduction, knowing the risks" to our country. 

Oh wait, he called his plan, "prioritize U.S. strategic interests in the face of reduced resources"  When in reality, he's reducing the size of our military in every force to the size we haven't seen since before WWII and eliminating an entire fleet of Air Force fighter planes. Read more Defense.gov Since then, our population has grown three fold, but who's counting, lemmings.  

So, forgive me if I don't cry or choose to throw a going-away party at the trumpeting of Hagel's departure, but rather become more suspicious at the timing.  I'll be watching for the ramming of a more liberal and dangerous SoD, if that person even exists.  

I'm sure Obama could dig up an ISIS member that wants the job, he did find Muslim Brotherhood for key cabinet positions within the White House Administration, right?

Hagel: "ISIS Beyond Just a Terrorist Group" an "'Imminent Threat' to US Interests"

By Elizabeth Nelson

America, do you see a pattern forming here?  Hagel goes on CNN and tells them that "ISIS is a long-term threat" and a "beyond anything we have seen."  Oh wait, this doesn't sound like a JV team to me, does this sound like a JV team to you?

"They have not standard of decency, they are an Imminent Threat to US Interests, at home or abroad."

"ISIL is  sophisticated  and well funded as any group that we have ever seen,  they are beyond just a terrorist group;  they marry ideology, sophistication or strategic and tactical prowess, they are tremendously well funded,  oh this is beyond anything we have seen.  We must prepare for everything and the only way we do that is we must take a steely cold hard look at it and get ready."   

Hey liberals, with your head in the sand, now General Dempsey, who has always reluctant for us to go into Iraq, is now agreeing with Hagel that we need to take the fight to ISIS in Syria, because "drone strikes are not enough to defeat ISIS."  Four-Star General Jack Keane was on Fox putting a bow on this issue, being quite blunt  about it,  and translating what is going to happen soon militarily. 

"The Administration has minimized the threat from ISIS and they an no longer ignore that threat, ISIS is willing to attack...we are now going to do something about it...we are going to put a comprehensive plan together to deal with it, probably reluctantly begrudgingly, because we do not have an alternative."

"We need a ground force in Iraq and air power not just to stop ISIS but to defeat it. The air power campaign in Syria as well in Iraq"

"In time we need ground forces and air power, I'm convinced we'll get there."

"ISIS is forcing the President to act...we need a military strategy, and in time the President will approve it."

What we're seeing here is, Hagel, Dempsey and Keane preparing Americans for the cold hard fact that the "War on Terror" is not over, as Obama once declared it was, because the other side hasn't relented their arms and hatred of Americans.  

The only problem with going into Syria, to fight ISIS is, Obama will be leading the charge and he's no President Bush, who had Putin as an un-likely ally, when went through Russia and Putin rallied others to fight the war on terror with us.  Do we really see Obama getting the same warm welcome and a spirit of cooperation with al-Assad, Putin or any or our allies?