A friend and admirer of Senator Hagel called the other day to ask whether we’d ever met the nominee to be secretary of defense. We expressed our regrets that we hadn’t. Our friend wanted us to know that Mr. Hagel does not dislike the Jews. We said we were delighted to hear it, but we also tried to convey that the Sun doesn’t care one way or another whether Mr. Hagel likes the Jews. His private views are not what we care about. What we care about is the policy line to which Mr. Hagel would hew were he to get a chance to run the defense department and advise the President.
We’ve written before about this question of private prejudice. Harry Truman didn’t like the Jews. He didn’t like African Americans or the Chinese or Japanese either. We know this from his private correspondence as a young man. Phew! It contains the coarsest kind of bigotry. Yet Truman became one of the great civil rights presidents and one of the greatest friends of Israel. Once lifted to high office in the Senate, where he served as both a senator and as vice president, and then in the presidency, Truman came to see things in a different light and to surmount his biases.
So our concerns in respect of Senator Hagel aren’t about his views on the Jews. And we appreciate the fact that he served as an enlisted man in Vietnam, an experience we tend to credit (although neither is it dispositive). But we’ve been covering his antics for years, and where we’ve come out is that he’s just over his head in terms of policy. So he’s emerged as a shill for Israel’s most implacable foes. It doesn’t take a genius to comprehend what the mullahs in Iran are going to make of this nomination.
It’s not that Israel is our only test. We’ve been writing editorials in support of Congressman Ron Paul’s Liberty Campaign. We didn’t make an endorsement. But we’ve been defending him, even though he has a record that has convinced many that he has a personal animus in respect of Israel. We see a big difference between, say, Dr. Paul and Mr. Hagel. Dr. Paul has, over more than the 35 years that we’ve covered him, exhibited a commitment to certain libertarian, constitutional principles, most of which we share and all of which we respect.
By what deep principles is Senator Hagel guided in his long years of hanging back from anything that could be construed as helpful to the Jewish state or unhelpful to her enemies? He’s made no life’s work of sound money. He’s made no life’s work of constitutional fundamentals. We can’t think of a single over-riding principle in his career, save for an abiding sneer at Israel, in which he seems to take a certain mischievous glee. Maybe we’re missing something that will emerge during the confirmation process, but based on the record so far, we’d be surprised.
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That comment, ” Mr. Hagel doesn’t dislike the Jews” , as a reason why no one should object to his serving as Secretary of Defense is comical and brings to mind the Godfather position of the old Mafia. When a member of the group became a traitor or a liability, the member selected to dispose of them would give them a hug and a kiss prior to the hit. Now there is true affection and honor for one of their own. It would be little consolation for Hagel to give a hug and a kiss before selling Israel out for a phony truce from the Islamists.
Read Revelation 2:9 & 3:9 – to be clear – I concur with the Anti-Zionist Jews that there CANNOT exist a legitimate state of Israel until the Messiah comes/returns – I also agree with various Jews of conscience that abhor the war crimes and atrocities of the Zionist entity that cannot be rightly called a state given that they refuse to establish boundaries of what is and is not theirs – although their people clamor for them to do so.
The body politic is hostage – either they are party to overwhelming corruption or they dare not address the real situation – AIPAC has a stranglehold on congress – the International Banksters that have plundered economies around the world – including ours, are all Rothschild Zionists – the phonies that falsely claim to be Jews dominate the media – Controlled “Left” and “Right” alike.
So called “Israel” has hundreds of state of the art nuclear weapons and delivery systems and absolutely refuses to even discuss signing the NPT while Iran has been fully compliant contrary to Zionist disinfo.
Take notice: War mongering is the TREASON of feigning a pretext for war – likewise it is TREASON to misue the term “National Security” to obstruct justice including justice pertaining to TREASON – incite hostilities abroad –
God is not for one instant deceived by the bare faced LIES of the Synagogue of Satan that are Khazarian Talumudists that feign themselves to be Jews and stifle honest discussion by the loaded term “Antisemitism”
Why did Ron Paul ask the question “Why is it political suicide to challenge AIPAC?” only when his political career was coming to a close?
Take Notice: Duplicity is NOT a blessing – shutting down objective examination of the official account of history is a sin – condoning the provocations of “Israel” is an offense to the Creator
He is another psychopath who has gravitated to politics to satisfy his urge to dominate.
http://www.amazon.com/Political-Ponerology-Science-Adjusted-Purposes/dp/1897244258/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1357595461&sr=1-1&keywords=political+ponerology+by+andrew+lobaczewski
Politicians are in general sociopaths – that is to say, Machiavellians – that do to the bidding of the Psychopathic Rothschild Plutocracy that dominates the body politic – politicians that aim to further their careers go along with Zionism – while those like Jim Trafficant wind up being railroaded into Club Fed for daring to tell the truth.
If you were saying that politicians in general are corrupt I would concur – but Hagel is not especially corrupt – that he dares to openly state the problems of the political entity that calls itself “Israel” is commendable.