New York Times: Obama’s policy toward “Daash” behind the dismissal of US Secretary of Defense
New York Times: Obama’s policy toward “Daash” behind the dismissal of US Secretary of Defense
25-11-2014 01:50 AM
Traded political circles in Washington, several novels about the reasons for the US president, Barack Obama, to dismiss his defense secretary Chuck Hagel, in spite of all attempts Administration show it as a resignation.
Hegel was speaking at the Woodrow Wilson Center in May / May in Washington, and I understood his time as a veiled criticism of Obama’s policy of only Republican in the Democratic administration.
Wilson Center is one of the most important research centers in the world, and enjoys strong ties with the US political circles, given that the budget funded by the US Congress.
Word Hegel expressed clearly about the widespread resentment in American political circles toward the Pacific withdrawal policy of engagement and soft exercised by the Obama administration, particularly with regard to the Syrian file.
Word Hegel, according to observers in Washington, did not go unnoticed, especially as the man at the top of his duties as defense minister, and may not criticize the administration directly or indirectly.
Hegel said very clearly, that the withdrawal from the world stage will not reduce the problems of the United States, but Cesedha, and stressed that ‘without deep engagement in the world, America will face more conflict, not less so.’
The newspaper ‘The New York Times’, has pointed out that’ these resign partly linked to disagreements about the strategy to be adopted to fight al ‘Islamic state’ (Daash) in Syria and Iraq. ”
It quoted a White House official, who requested anonymity, that he ‘will be set back to Hegel quickly’, pointing out that ‘the defense minister, is the only Republican in the Obama administration, will remain in office until the Senate’s ratification of the appointment of the new defense minister.
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