{"id":56646,"date":"2014-11-24T09:34:17","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T14:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56646"},"modified":"2014-11-24T09:37:51","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T14:37:51","slug":"hagel-to-step-down-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56646","title":{"rendered":"Hagel to step down? Already?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/defense-secretary-chuck-hagel-step\/story?id=27132409\">broadcast news <\/a>is reporting without any details that Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel is stepping down fro that position. Jennifer Griffin on Fox News reports that he tendered his resignation to the President this morning and that they mutually agreed. <\/p>\n<p>He never should have been the SecDef. His service in Vietnam was enviable, but he is out of his depth. Hagel was appointed because he is a politician, but with the world going to shit, we need a leader and none of the last few Defense Secretaries have fit that bill.<\/p>\n<p>Hagel performed poorly at his confirmation hearing and that should have been a clue. Republicans voted to confirm him while they complained that he wasn&#8217;t a good fit &#8211; that makes no sense to me. But, hey, Hagel is the only Republican to have the support of VoteVets, so he had that going for him.<\/p>\n<p>But, I&#8217;m sure they can find someone less competent and more political than Hagel to make the situation at DoD and in the world worse. Maybe they can get Wesley Clarke. Wouldn&#8217;t that suck?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The broadcast news is reporting without any details that Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel is stepping &hellip; <a title=\"Hagel to step down? Already?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56646\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hagel to step down? Already?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-pentagon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}