Unless announced by Hegel in his resignation
Unless announced by Hegel in his resignation
11/27/2014 0:00
Washington Ahmed Hadi
is the resignation of US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel of his first major change of US administration after the defeat of the Democratic Party, which belongs to President Barack Obama in the congressional midterm elections three weeks ago. Also stepping down Hegel carries the lack of vision of harmony within the administration about the strategy adopted by the organization in the fight against “Daash.” This has seemed clear from the White House spokesman Josh Earnest told who said: “The decision was the product of long talks and the Minister of the President more than a month, where the two arrived together to the conviction that the new leadership must be to take the reins at the Pentagon.”
I have raised doubts about Hegel Obama policy in the fight against “Daash” especially in Syria, because she did not what to do about Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Hegel has warned in a letter sent to the national security of the President Barack Obama team (last October) of the failure of the administration strategy. Although he did not confirm Send Thus memo, but he said later that “the Syrian regime to benefit from air strikes launched by the coalition against” Daash “in Syria.”
If the size differences and broad in terms of strategic management in Syria, it seemed little about the situation in Iraq. It seemed that Hegel and Obama agree that the US military strategic focus in Iraq on several axes include the implementation of air strikes against targets belonging to “Daash”, arming and training the Iraqi and Kurdish forces and advise them through the more than 1,500 US military adviser who is expected to increase the number to 3100 During the next two months. It seems that the main point of contention between Hegel and Obama on Iraq as to whether they will engage US forces in any combat duties against “Daash.” And Hegel said several times that he will not hesitate to take into account any recommendation may submit chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, US Army Gen. Martin Dempsey about sending combat troops to Iraq to fight alongside Iraqi forces. This is not unlikely if we take into consideration that the defense minister belongs to the Republican Party, which criticizes senior leaders where Obama for refusing to send ground troops to fight “Daash.”
But the US Defense Department denied directly on the tongue of her spokesman John Kirby “It’s nothing to do with connecting the resignation of the Minister Defense, Chuck Hagel, a way deal the United States or its policies in Iraq and the international coalition against al “Daash”. ” However, Republican Senator John McCain, speaking in a language more explicit about the reasons for the resignation of Hegel (hours after the publication of the news of stepping down in the New York Times), saying: “The minister Hegel was very frustrating from strategic foreign policy, the Obama administration in the Middle East and Eastern Europe,” he “I have not had a chance to succeed.” McCain said in an interview with the station Phoenix radio: “It was in my office last week. It was very frustrating because it is not our strategy.”
McCain said: “The Hegel was never within the inner circle at the White House that all decisions, Chuck Hagel honest man and honest.” . After the sacking of Hegel, one of the most prominent internal opponents in the administration’s strategy of Obama in the fight against “Daash” it is unlikely that much will change in US strategy with the arrival of any of the potential candidates to succeed Hegel, namely Under the former Ministry of Defense Michele Flournoy, and Ashton Carter, former deputy secretary of defense, which previously rumored that they competitors for the position of Hegel before his appointment.
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