Hagel Nomination Meant To Weaken US Military

Caroline Glick in the following post nails the reasons for the Hagel appointment and it is not about Israel  but rather the goal to hollow out the US military and make it ineffective and third rate.  We have seen this done before and the result always is the same. We are attacked and have to rebuild to make sure that we can defend ourselves.  So, why don't we learn? We forget the lesson.

Those "smart people" do not believe that history is a good teacher. They believe that they are brighter than those who preceded them and that they will not fall into the same traps. However, that never occurs as the past can help us understand conditions and people's reactions. When one country destroys its own military, other leaders who will view this an an opportunity for more global influence or even to take other territory knowing full well that the first country cannot respond effectively. It might bluster and bring charges but that is about all it can do since its military is effectively gone.

We are in this position today. Obama and his minions want the US military to be gutted. Therefore, they have no problem with the sequester's effect on the defense department. They want to damage the esprit d' corps by imposing women into all units. They fail to give proper medical and mental aid to those returning troops hoping that some of them will go off the deep end and prove their philosophy that they are a problem. They treat the troops like used Kleenex to be disposed of when their service is done.

The Hagel appointment combined with Brennan and Kerry shows us the direction this country is taking. It is not pretty and it will effect every American and most of the world. The ramifications will be beyond anything that most of us can imagine.

Be Scared, Be Very Scared.

Conservative Tom

Classic Hagel

Caroline Glick - Family Security Matters,  February 12th, 2013

I think it is pretty amazing that AIPAC is keeping mum on the fact that Obama has nominated a Jew hater and Israel basher to serve as the next Defense Secretary. As I've said before, Hagel's appointment is a far greater threat to the US military than it is to Israel. But still, it is pretty obscene that Obama is getting away with appointing this character to serve as the Pentagon chief.

Today, the estimable Adam Kredo at the Washington Free Beacon reported another classic Hagelian anti-Israel slur and libel. Back in 2003 he gave an interview to his hometown paper saying that Israel “keep[s] the Palestinians caged up like animals.”

And of course, this is only one of countless examples of Hagel's animus towards the Jewish state and its Jewish supporters in the US. But AIPAC is silent.

As I wrote before, I understand that AIPAC doesn't want to fight a fight it can't win. But what fights will it be able to win with a president so hostile to Israel that he appointed the most outspoken anti-Israel senator since Chuck Percy to serve as Defense Secretary? What do they think they will be able to get? A cut-off in aid to the PLO? A cut-off in F-16 and M1A1 Abrams tanks transfers to Egypt? Further ineffective sanctions against Iran? More military assistance to the IDF?

Israel is better off expanding its own defense industries than depending on Hagel for spare parts.

As to the US military, as David Horowitz wrote back in 1992, the movement to assign women to frontline combat unit is not about advancing women. It is about destroying the US military. The fact that Obama didn't even need for Hagel to enter office before taking his first swipe at the military shows just how grandiose his plans for gutting US military capabilities in his second term are.

To be clear, as a woman who served as an officer in the IDF for 5 and a half years, and worked as an embedded reporter with an all male US infantry unit in Iraq, I have to say that I don't think there is anything inherently wrong with women serving in combat. But the purpose of last week's decision wasn't about permitting women to fight on the battlefield. They already do. It was about social engineering and weakening the esprit d'corps of the US military. As Saul Alinsky taught his followers the goal is never what you say it is. The goal is always the revolution.

Delegitimizing and weakening Israel is only one part of the “revolution.” Israel will survive Obama and Hagel and Kerry and Brennan.

But that doesn't mean we and our supporters in the US should keep silent about their hostility just because we know we can't block their appointments. By pointing out their radicalism, we are at a minimum sending out the necessary warning about what their future plans will likely involve. And that is important, because the more they are criticized the weaker they will feel.