Yep. At least Obama knows what he knows, and appoints people who fill out his gaps in experience. None of the Iraq war chicken-hawks, and almost none of the neo-con “let’s attack Iran” people are veterans. Although I guess McCain proves that experience in war doesn’t mean a sense about when war is appropriate.
I think Hagel was a good choice, because he can handle the responsibilities of the positon, and because as a Republican, he’ll get more GOP support with his less hawkish positions than any Democrat could.
The ‘toon has it right, and America needs to STOP listening to chickenhawks, whether on Afghanistan, Iran, or Israel. We have WAY too many of them in Congress. BTW, Biden’s son was in Iraq. I don’t have a problem with those like Obama who’ve served in other ways, IF they work at getting us OUT of wars, sadly he’s not doing it fast enough, but at least working on it. He now needs to tell Republicans and AIPAC, and Nutty-yahoo, we will NOT attack Iran, but we WILL attack anyone who does!
Iran sucks, yes, their government that is, but Netanyahu and Likud are worse, and have nuclear weapons. Let Iran have the fuel for nuclear power plants, remove the weapons grade material they might produce, and let’s buy their oil, as they originally proposed, and let them stop burning it for fuel in electrical generation. Heck, let’s run the reactors fOR them!
ARodney over 11 years ago
Yep. At least Obama knows what he knows, and appoints people who fill out his gaps in experience. None of the Iraq war chicken-hawks, and almost none of the neo-con “let’s attack Iran” people are veterans. Although I guess McCain proves that experience in war doesn’t mean a sense about when war is appropriate.
Marty Z over 11 years ago
I think Hagel was a good choice, because he can handle the responsibilities of the positon, and because as a Republican, he’ll get more GOP support with his less hawkish positions than any Democrat could.
Dtroutma over 11 years ago
The ‘toon has it right, and America needs to STOP listening to chickenhawks, whether on Afghanistan, Iran, or Israel. We have WAY too many of them in Congress. BTW, Biden’s son was in Iraq. I don’t have a problem with those like Obama who’ve served in other ways, IF they work at getting us OUT of wars, sadly he’s not doing it fast enough, but at least working on it. He now needs to tell Republicans and AIPAC, and Nutty-yahoo, we will NOT attack Iran, but we WILL attack anyone who does!
Iran sucks, yes, their government that is, but Netanyahu and Likud are worse, and have nuclear weapons. Let Iran have the fuel for nuclear power plants, remove the weapons grade material they might produce, and let’s buy their oil, as they originally proposed, and let them stop burning it for fuel in electrical generation. Heck, let’s run the reactors fOR them!
Rymlianin over 11 years ago
Mitch McConnell “had better things to do”. So did Boner.
thebaldtexican over 11 years ago
Indeed… I think Obama should appoint a six year old girl… that would work out just as well…