U.S. Neocons Should Heed Hagel’s Eisenhower Model
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The conflict between Chuck Hagel, President Barack Obama’s nominee for U.S. secretary of defense, and his neoconservative detractors feels personal. Hagel once disparaged the neocons as “chicken hawks,” and the neocons call Hagel “an appeaser.”
But beneath the name calling lies a deeper and more substantive divide in the Republican Party that goes back more than a half-century.