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		<title>By: amalech</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 04:39:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hagel despised? Tell that to Robert Wright. In a postscript to his Atlantic article &quot;Chuck Hagel and the Neocon Smear Machine&quot;  he lists some Hagel supporters you must have overlooked, Mr. Greenfield.  
&quot;Already, Hagel has been defended by a strikingly diverse array of voices, including (in addition to people... mentioned in the piece) Dana Milbank of the Washington Post; John Judis of The New Republic; Andrew Sullivan of the Daily Beast; Scott McConnell and Daniel Larison of The American Conservative; the progressive pro-Israel group J Street; the Center for American Progress blog ThinkProgress; Stephen Walt of Foreign Policy and Harvard; Steve Clemons of The Atlantic and the New America Foundation; Jim Fallows of The Atlantic; Emily Hauser of Open Zion; Marsha B. Cohen and Jim Lobe at Lobeblog; Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times; Clyde Prestowitz, formerly US Trade Representative in a Republican administration, in Foreign Policy; Robert Merry at The National Interest; former U.S. Ambassador to Israel Daniel Kurtzer; and former U.S. Middle East negotiator Aaron David Miller (author of the book in which Hagel&#039;s &quot;Jewish Lobby&quot; quote appears).... Also, former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft and former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage.&quot; He adds that &quot;A bunch of former US ambassadors--including five former ambassadors to Israel--have now written a letter saying Hagel has &#039;impeccable&#039; credentials to be secretary of defense: Nicholas Burns, former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Ambassador to NATO and Greece; Ryan Crocker, former Ambassador to Iraq and Afghanistan; Edward Djerejian, former Ambassador to Israel and Syria; William Harrop, former Ambassador to Israel; Daniel Kurtzer, former Ambassador to Israel and Egypt; Sam Lewis, former Ambassador to Israel; William H. Luers, former Ambassador to Venezuela and Czechoslovakia; Thomas R. Pickering, former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Ambassador to Israel and Russia; Frank G. Wisner, former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Ambassador to Egypt and India.&quot;                                         Wow!  For somebody who doesn&#039;t know how to make friends, Hagel sure managed  to earn a lot of respect from these A-listers. Maybe because he&#039;s a man of integrity, an America-Firster who puts his country before his party and before his job. With a dozen like him in Congress there&#039;d be hope for us yet.  
 
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hagel despised? Tell that to Robert Wright. In a postscript to his Atlantic article &quot;Chuck Hagel and the Neocon Smear Machine&quot;  he lists some Hagel supporters you must have overlooked, Mr. Greenfield.<br />
&quot;Already, Hagel has been defended by a strikingly diverse array of voices, including (in addition to people&#8230; mentioned in the piece) Dana Milbank of the Washington Post; John Judis of The New Republic; Andrew Sullivan of the Daily Beast; Scott McConnell and Daniel Larison of The American Conservative; the progressive pro-Israel group J Street; the Center for American Progress blog ThinkProgress; Stephen Walt of Foreign Policy and Harvard; Steve Clemons of The Atlantic and the New America Foundation; Jim Fallows of The Atlantic; Emily Hauser of Open Zion; Marsha B. Cohen and Jim Lobe at Lobeblog; Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times; Clyde Prestowitz, formerly US Trade Representative in a Republican administration, in Foreign Policy; Robert Merry at The National Interest; former U.S. Ambassador to Israel Daniel Kurtzer; and former U.S. Middle East negotiator Aaron David Miller (author of the book in which Hagel&#039;s &quot;Jewish Lobby&quot; quote appears)&#8230;. Also, former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft and former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage.&quot; He adds that &quot;A bunch of former US ambassadors&#8211;including five former ambassadors to Israel&#8211;have now written a letter saying Hagel has &#039;impeccable&#039; credentials to be secretary of defense: Nicholas Burns, former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Ambassador to NATO and Greece; Ryan Crocker, former Ambassador to Iraq and Afghanistan; Edward Djerejian, former Ambassador to Israel and Syria; William Harrop, former Ambassador to Israel; Daniel Kurtzer, former Ambassador to Israel and Egypt; Sam Lewis, former Ambassador to Israel; William H. Luers, former Ambassador to Venezuela and Czechoslovakia; Thomas R. Pickering, former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Ambassador to Israel and Russia; Frank G. Wisner, former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Ambassador to Egypt and India.&quot;                                         Wow!  For somebody who doesn&#039;t know how to make friends, Hagel sure managed  to earn a lot of respect from these A-listers. Maybe because he&#039;s a man of integrity, an America-Firster who puts his country before his party and before his job. With a dozen like him in Congress there&#039;d be hope for us yet.  </p>
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		<title>By: irateiconoclast</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 03:18:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yep--you do in fact mention other Israel-bashers as supporters of Chuck Hellhole! ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yep&#8211;you do in fact mention other Israel-bashers as supporters of Chuck Hellhole! </p>
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		<title>By: Mike from Queens</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike from Queens]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2013 01:50:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Selective journalism. You&#039;re so eager to sink Hagel, you &quot;conveniently&quot; forgot to mention that most former US Ambasadors to Israel, several former Combatant Commanders, and the national security advisors to Reagan, Bush I, Carter and Obama, as well as Wolfensohn the former World Bank President, Lee Hamilton of the 9/11 commission, and others have written to support Hagel. I guess its because these people are also &quot;less important than Buchanan or Friedman. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Selective journalism. You&#039;re so eager to sink Hagel, you &quot;conveniently&quot; forgot to mention that most former US Ambasadors to Israel, several former Combatant Commanders, and the national security advisors to Reagan, Bush I, Carter and Obama, as well as Wolfensohn the former World Bank President, Lee Hamilton of the 9/11 commission, and others have written to support Hagel. I guess its because these people are also &quot;less important than Buchanan or Friedman. </p>
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		<title>By: objectivefactsmatter</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[objectivefactsmatter]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2013 23:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;Kerry, for all his faults, is expected to be easily confirmed. Hagel, on the other hand, is despised. Both men have similar politics, but different personalities. Where most Senators have made friends, Hagel seems to have left behind only enemies.&quot; 
 
That&#039;s too bad. I&#039;d like to see both of them on the streets in the unemployment lines. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&quot;Kerry, for all his faults, is expected to be easily confirmed. Hagel, on the other hand, is despised. Both men have similar politics, but different personalities. Where most Senators have made friends, Hagel seems to have left behind only enemies.&quot; </p>
<p>That&#039;s too bad. I&#039;d like to see both of them on the streets in the unemployment lines. </p>
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		<title>By: Ben Cohen</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Cohen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2013 21:12:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That Obama would actually nominate? ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That Obama would actually nominate? </p>
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		<title>By: Snow White</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Snow White]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2013 20:46:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Women in Combat and leadership roles in the military? My grandson did a tour in Afghanistan and served under a female Capt. who was so dumb that she made copies of a magazine article, passed them out to the squad, and then proceeded to read the article to them. This was just one of her inane training sessions. Even the lowest grunt under her command laughed at her behind her back. then there&#039;s that female General in charge of Abu Grab.Everyone knows low level GIs live in fear of breaking a rule or disobeying an order, so there is no way those accused of mistreating prisoners did it unless the Gen. ordered it, approved of their conduct, or didn&#039;t know enough about being in command to know what was goin on and have prevented it. That situation would not have happened under a competent General or commander. Affirmative Actioning incompetents into positions they can&#039;t handle is costing our GIs their lives.  
ctioning Women into leadership positions they are not capable of handling is costing our GIs their lives.  ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Women in Combat and leadership roles in the military? My grandson did a tour in Afghanistan and served under a female Capt. who was so dumb that she made copies of a magazine article, passed them out to the squad, and then proceeded to read the article to them. This was just one of her inane training sessions. Even the lowest grunt under her command laughed at her behind her back. then there&#039;s that female General in charge of Abu Grab.Everyone knows low level GIs live in fear of breaking a rule or disobeying an order, so there is no way those accused of mistreating prisoners did it unless the Gen. ordered it, approved of their conduct, or didn&#039;t know enough about being in command to know what was goin on and have prevented it. That situation would not have happened under a competent General or commander. Affirmative Actioning incompetents into positions they can&#039;t handle is costing our GIs their lives.<br />
ctioning Women into leadership positions they are not capable of handling is costing our GIs their lives.  </p>
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		<title>By: Ghostwriter</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ghostwriter]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2013 20:44:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After what I&#039;ve heard of Hagel,I doubt he&#039;s going to be Secretary of Defense. Like the article said,this guy has a REAL gift for making friends [sarcasm intended]. 
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After what I&#039;ve heard of Hagel,I doubt he&#039;s going to be Secretary of Defense. Like the article said,this guy has a REAL gift for making friends [sarcasm intended]. </p>
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		<title>By: Daniel Greenfield</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2013 20:16:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe. Maybe not. 
 
There are better possibilities. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Maybe. Maybe not. </p>
<p>There are better possibilities. </p>
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		<title>By: Daniel Greenfield</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2013 20:15:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;Then again, the characterisation of Saudi Arabia and China as &quot;enemies&quot; as opposed to a close ally and rival respectively is a good indicator of how fundamentally unserious this piece is.&quot; 
 
Nothing says close ally like ramming a plane into the Pentagon.  ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&quot;Then again, the characterisation of Saudi Arabia and China as &quot;enemies&quot; as opposed to a close ally and rival respectively is a good indicator of how fundamentally unserious this piece is.&quot; </p>
<p>Nothing says close ally like ramming a plane into the Pentagon.  </p>
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		<title>By: Daniel Greenfield</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2013 20:14:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#039;t overlook them, they&#039;re even less important than Buchanan or Friedman. They&#039;re has beens eager to give a quote. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I didn&#039;t overlook them, they&#039;re even less important than Buchanan or Friedman. They&#039;re has beens eager to give a quote. </p>
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		<title>By: Ben Cohen</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Cohen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2013 19:37:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dan, 
 
The key question is whether Hagel is the best nominee that (sane) Americans can hope for? Is Hagel such an out and out bigot that he will discriminate against Jews and/or Gays? I&#039;m not convinced. At the same time he might provide resistance to efforts to use affirmative action to gut standards, put more women in combat, or slash our nuclear arsenal. I have a sneaking suspicion that if Hagel get&#039;s shot down Obama will nominate someone much, much, worse. 
 
-Ben ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dan, </p>
<p>The key question is whether Hagel is the best nominee that (sane) Americans can hope for? Is Hagel such an out and out bigot that he will discriminate against Jews and/or Gays? I&#039;m not convinced. At the same time he might provide resistance to efforts to use affirmative action to gut standards, put more women in combat, or slash our nuclear arsenal. I have a sneaking suspicion that if Hagel get&#039;s shot down Obama will nominate someone much, much, worse. </p>
<p>-Ben </p>
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		<title>By: Esteban</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Esteban]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2013 19:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting how you overlook Brent Scowcroft, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Frank Carlucci, James Jones and a large portion of the military and intelligence establishment. I suppose the realist school of foreign policy is just another element of the &quot;hysterical anti-Israel crowd&quot; in your book. 
 
The suggestion that opposition to Hagel in the Senate is due to his inability to form relationships (and not due to AIPAC doing what it does, lobbying) is about as believable as the idea that the Log Cabin Republicans took out that rather expensive anti-Hagel NYT ad out of their own passionately-held LGBTQ principles and budget. 
 
Then again, the characterisation of Saudi Arabia and China as &quot;enemies&quot; as opposed to a close ally and rival respectively is a good indicator of how fundamentally unserious this piece is. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Interesting how you overlook Brent Scowcroft, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Frank Carlucci, James Jones and a large portion of the military and intelligence establishment. I suppose the realist school of foreign policy is just another element of the &quot;hysterical anti-Israel crowd&quot; in your book. </p>
<p>The suggestion that opposition to Hagel in the Senate is due to his inability to form relationships (and not due to AIPAC doing what it does, lobbying) is about as believable as the idea that the Log Cabin Republicans took out that rather expensive anti-Hagel NYT ad out of their own passionately-held LGBTQ principles and budget. </p>
<p>Then again, the characterisation of Saudi Arabia and China as &quot;enemies&quot; as opposed to a close ally and rival respectively is a good indicator of how fundamentally unserious this piece is. </p>
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