part of what hagel is arguing, not all wars are worth winning. we tend to discuss, as long as we won, that is fine, good enough. and his point is there is a cost, even to something that goes to that, as well. and he expresses it emotionally in the hearing, it is not just the fact that you can staunch the bleeding, it is the fact you need to treat the wound. and that is where hagel wanted to express he was coming from, there were some engagements that shouldn t be done. and we shouldn t think as view is, somebody should write us out of the main stream. you picked what hagel talked about, what he wants to do with the navy. it strikes me as important, as well. if you could play that. the navy is an indispensable part of our security apparatus.
when you take the surge, john mccain s line of questioning was based on the idea that at this point the surge was correct, it did staunch the blood, and move the war in another direction. there are other factors, but you can t be a credible person and have opposed it. part of what hagel is arguing, not all wars are worth winning. we tend to discuss, as long as we won, that is fine, good enough. and his point is there is a cost, even to something that goes to that, as well. and he expresses it emotionally in the hearing, it is not just the fact that you can staunch the bleeding, it is the fact you need to treat the wound. and that is where hagel wanted to express he was coming from, there were some engagements that shouldn t be done. and we shouldn t think as view is, somebody should write us out of the main stream. you picked what hagel talked about, what he wants to do with the navy. it strikes me as important, as well. if you could play that. the navy is an indispensable part o
opposed the surge in iraq, and john mccain kind of pushed forward the info. hagel said while his experience in vietnam doesn t define him, it is a part of his character. for those of us who talk to the vietnam veterans, you hear this theme sounded a lot. while in washington, talking about restraint for military engagements thinks to make somebody a dubious case, it comes from a real place. and that is sort of what hagel wanted to express. and this goes to the way we deal with the questions. when you take the surge, john mccain s line of questioning was based on the idea that at this point the surge was correct, it did staunch the blood, and move the war in another direction. there are other factors, but you can t be a credible person and have opposed it.
mccarthy period was like, the inquisition chamber, that. he didn t give him a chance to answer the question. it wasn t about him himself, it was about lindsey graham grandstanding for the five minutes he gets. congressional hearings have really gone downhill in the last 20, 25 years. you saw yesterday far more talk about what hagel might have said about israel a couple of years ago than about afghanistan. they wanted recanation. they wanted him to recant yes. excuse me. that s for you, joy. that s exactly right. an ecclesiastical proceeding. they feel like he turned on them, turn on their war, turned on their neocons and cry uncle. they see chuck hagel as the human roadblock and the some
what the inquisition was like a little bit, the star chamber? that. he didn t give him a chance to answer the question. it wasn t about the issue itself. it was about lindsey graham grandstanding for the five minutes he gets. there s a whole other story about how congressional hearings have really gone downhill over the last 10 or 20 years, five-minute questions, you don t get to develop a train of thought, you don t take in the answer and have a real discussion. you saw yesterday far more talk about what hagel might have said about israel a couple years ago than about afghanistan. they wanted recantation. they wanted him to recant like excuse me, ecclesiastical proceeding. turn the candle upside down. they feel he turned on them, turned on the neocons, and they want him to cry uncle. the neocons, who are led in the senate by john mccain and lindsey graham, they see chuck hagel as the human roadblock and the symbol that barack obama, that president obama is not going to let the