Bob Woodward analyzes why Obama picked Chuck Hagel to head up the Department of Defense.
The two share similar views and philosophies as the Obama
administration attempts to define the role of the United States in the
transition to a post-superpower world.
This worldview is part hawk
and part dove. It amounts, in part, to a challenge to the wars of
President George W. Bush. It holds that the Afghanistan war has been
mismanaged and the Iraq war unnecessary. War is an option, but very much
a last resort.
So, this thinking goes, the U.S. role in the
world must be carefully scaled back — this is not a matter of choice but
of facing reality; the military needs to be treated with deep
skepticism; lots of strategic military and foreign policy thinking is
out of date; and quagmires like Afghanistan should be avoided.
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