Category — nuclear weapons

Senator Chuck Hagel sounds more like a blame America first leftist than a Republican senator:

SPIEGEL: You are, then, an advocate of America relying more on soft power than on the military?

Hagel: That’s the way we will make progress. We have to use our economic and also our cultural strength. Trust is the crucial currency in international relations. We willfully diminished the value of this currency and we now have to rebuild it. Trust is more important than anything else. North Korea was a part of the Axis of Evil, but now the United States is using the instruments of diplomacy in the Six Party talks.

We “willfully diminished” the value of trust in dealing with nations like North Korea and Iran? Bill Clinton trusted the North Koreans, but they continued their uranium enrichment activities anyway.   Hear, see, and speak no evil is the coin of trustworthy international diplomacy after all.

Hagel certainly sounds like a man bucking for a job in the Obama administration. It’s depressing to see the country club Republicans throwing in the towel.  No wonder conservatives are abandoning the GOP.