Chuck Hagel: Democrat, gun lover, abortion hater
Danielle Pletka | American Enterprise Institute
January 07, 2013

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  • What does the president like about Chuck Hagel?

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  • Can someone answer this question: Whom has Chuck Hagel not offended?

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Can someone answer this question: Whom has Chuck Hagel not offended?

There’s the GOP… Let’s face it, no one likes an apostate.

There are the Jews and the pro-Israel community (which is made up of Jews, and yes, Christians).

There’s the LGBT community.

But wait, there are others: Pro-defense? Not Hagel.

Soldiers who believe in the wars you’ve fought? Not Hagel.

Pro-choice? Not Hagel. (A zero from NARAL Pro-choice America. Really Chuck? Really? Against servicewomen being allowed to pay for their own abortions?)

For gun control? Not Hagel. (An A from the NRA? Nice.)

But surely for an assault weapons ban? Nope.

Yes, all you cute types out there will rally for a gun lover at the Pentagon. And hell, I don’t care. But the president of the United States, the same Barack Obama about to embark on an anti-gun crusade… he doesn’t care? Same guy who luxuriated in three days on abortion at the Democratic National Convention last year? Seriously?

Exit question: What does the president like about Chuck Hagel?

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  • As a long-time Senate Committee on Foreign Relation senior professional staff member for the Near East and South Asia, Danielle Pletka was the point person on Middle East, Pakistan, India and Afghanistan issues. As the vice president for foreign and defense policy studies at AEI, Pletka writes on national security matters with a focus on Iran and weapons proliferation, the Middle East, Syria, Israel and the Arab Spring. She also studies and writes about South Asia: Pakistan, India and Afghanistan.


    Pletka is the co-editor of “Dissent and Reform in the Arab World: Empowering Democrats” (AEI Press, 2008) and the co-author of “Containing and Deterring a Nuclear Iran” (AEI Press, 2011). Her most recent study, “Iranian influence in the Levant, Egypt, Iraq, and Afghanistan,” was published in May 2012. She is currently working on a follow-up report on U.S.–Iranian competitive strategies in the Middle East, to be published in the summer of 2013.


     


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