President Obama’s Nomination of Chuck Hagel as the next Secretary of Defense

With each passing day, Senators John McCain and Lindsay Graham are becoming less and less relevant and combined with their vehement hate for President Obama; they are doing much damage to America, their respective families and themselves.

John McCain and Chuck Hagel are both decorated Vietnam War Veterans and used to be “bosom buddies,” that is, until Obama Nominated Chuck Hagel to be the next Defense Secretary.

A close study of Mr. McCain prior to his defeat in the 2008 election, represented a man who cared about his country; its people; a person who was able to work with the opposition, however, it is self evident that McCain’s loss has sent him bonkers. In 2007, John McCain, Ted Kennedy and former President, George W. Bush came together with sincerity to resolve America’s Immigration problems through Immigration Reform.

John McCain is no longer the man he used to be and his insanity has brought out very obvious and sinister peculiarities about the man, and truly, this is a very sad state of affair. But then again that is what “hate” does to people.

As [Boethius] so wisely noted; “There would be no place for hatred among wise men. For who but the foolish would hate good men? Vice is a disease of the mind, just as feebleness shows ill health to the body.”

Chuck Hagel is a good and decent man; a man who when called upon served his country and received; Two Purple Hearts; The Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry; Army Commendation Medal and the Combat Infantryman Badge. Mr. Hagel took the patriotic path as opposed to those that willfully dogged the draft; George W. Bush, Bill Clinton; Donald Rumsfeld; John Bolton; Mitt Romney and so many others.

After returning to civilian life Mr. Hagel Co-Founded Vanguard Cellular; served as President of the McCarthy Group and served in the United States Senate from 1997 until he retired in 2008. He is currently a professor at the Edmund W. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

The haters on the extreme right and few on the extreme left are misrepresenting Mr. Hagel’s statements with an unrelenting affront that is totally dubious. Two of Mr. Hagel’s remarks are;

“The Israeli Government essentially continues to play games…Desperate men do desperate things when you take hope away. And that’s where the Palestinians are today.”

“I think we should continue to pursue openings with Iran, understanding this is still a nation very hostile to the West.” We need to understand cold, hard realities and be very clear-eyed and clearheaded, but every opening we should take.”

After eleven years of war; thousands of our precious men and women in uniform lost their lives; tens of thousands lost their arms or legs or both and in excess of 60,000 in a peculiar mental state of mind, trillions of dollars spent, we need people like Mr. Hagel who ask us to be clear-eyed and clearheaded.

It is my distinct opinion that despite all of the “hubris” from McCain and others to deny Mr. Hagel to be the next Defense Secretary, we do have sixty seven sensible Senators that would see the wisdom in President Obama’s Nomination of Mr. Hagel.

Follow me on Twitter – over 350,000 followers @sheriffali