| To make matters worse, says the source close to Hagel, the White House also worried about Hagel being too professorial. |
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| A decorated Vietnam vet, Hagel helmed the USO, an organization dedicated to caring for military service members abroad. |
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| And yet, Hagel has the backing of those ex-ambassadors, former NSC heads of both parties, and more. |
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| Another pointed accusation directed at Hagel is the question of how he would deter Iran from getting a nuclear bomb. |
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| Officially, the White House had nothing but plaudits for Hagel and his abilities running the enormous Defense Department. |
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| Rather than being challenged on his pro-Israel bona fides, Chuck Hagel should be seen in the same manner. |
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| From practically the day he took office as the 24th Secretary of Defense less than two years ago, chuck Hagel was a marked man. |
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| Just three Republicans out of 44 voted to confirm Hagel, himself a former GOP senator. |
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| Hagel declined to confirm or deny whether Baghdadi was, in fact, among the living. |
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| By 2007, Hagel was giving speeches on the floor of the Senate opposing the counterinsurgency strategy and surge of troops in Iraq. |
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| Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is also getting the cold shoulder from his Russian counterpart Sergey Shoygu. |
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| But Hagel just as quickly shut down the suggestion, saying he was disinclined to review the policy formally. |
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| Senator Hagel made a crystal-clear promise that he would do 'whatever it takes' to stop Tehran from obtaining nuclear weapons. |
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| Hagel and Brown point out that construction of the Web services architecture is still in its early stages and will require years of investment and refinement. |
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| The chemical agent in question, Hagel said, was likely sarin, a deadly nerve gas. |
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| And Hagel was changed, in large measure, because he bore within him intellectual scar tissue from Vietnam. |
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| Failing that, Abrams should issue a public apology to Hagel for making this scurrilous charge. |
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| Hagel sought to downplay any rift in a statement to Defense Department employees. |
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| But while leveling his drive-by accusation of anti-Semitism against Hagel, Foxman threw in Carter for good measure. |
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| Finally, the Hagel haggle highlighted a critical lesson for the pro-Israel community. |
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| As John Judis showed in a superb 2007 profile, Vietnam haunts Hagel to this day. |
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| So instead, Republican senators have launched an attack on Hagel filled with sound and fury but signifying very little. |
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| As for Schumer, the idea that he might oppose Hagel was implausible from the outset. |
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| The real Hagel is a curious combination of raw emotion and international relations theory abstraction. |
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| For conservative partisans, Hagel is now the embodiment of all these irritants. |
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| Again and again, they delivered bloviating, tendentious monologues and then cut Hagel off when he tried to reply. |
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| Now consider the message Karzai is sending by torpedoing the planned press conference with Hagel. |
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| In other words, Hagel may yet be in the job past January 2017 anyway. |
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| Secretary of Defense Chack Hagel received in Washington today his Yemeni counterpart Maj. |
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| From The Power of Pull by John Hagel III, John Seely Brown, and Lang Davison. |
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| Hagel also OK'd a proposal to upgrade the top nuclear force official at Air Force headquarters in the Pentagon from a two-star general to a three-star, the officials said. |
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