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Chuck Hagel Says About-Face on Syria Hurt Obama’s Credibility
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Former Defense Secretary in the second term of the Obama administration, Chuck Hagel, says U.S. president Obama hurt his credibility when he failed to act on his own comments of a "red line" being crossed following the chemical attacks in Syria by the Assad government. Hagel was critical in an article in Foreign Policy magazine of the way the national security advisor, Susan E. Rice, ran discussions on foreign policy issues, with too many meetings and discussion followed up with deferring difficult decisions.
Chuck Hagel, U.S. Defense Secretary 2013-2014
09/03/2009
The former Republican senator from Nebraska as U.S. Defense Secretary.
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