wunt real wasn t really prepared on some of the issues specifically the administrati administration s position on iran. he wasn t prepared on those questions and hadn t been reading up on what this administration s policy is in terms of containing and not even containing, but stopping iran from getting a nuclear weapon. so i think that really didn t do him any favors and really ended up dragging this process out much longer than it needed to be. i think it goes to show that in many ways hagel was a nominee that didn t have a cheerleading section in the democratic party or the republican party and so i think he s got some work to do in terms of mending fences going forward. john, in an op ed for the hill, major general roger blunt wrote with the 66,000 u.s. troops that remain on the ground in afghanistan and the american forces they protect deserve a secretary of defense not political theater. are those still persisting in their opposition to hagel hurting their own status among milit