Word: hagel
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...other big political change since the November elections. Skepticism among Republicans about the President's thinking on Iraq has become reflexive. Over the past week, two Republican Senators, Richard Lugar of Indiana and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, indicated they were far from sold on the surge, and Chuck Hagel, a Vietnam veteran from Nebraska, called a surge "folly." A senior aide to a G.O.P. Senator told TIME that "requiring more troops without providing the goals or the message is a killer. It's a political killer...
...your-face hypocrisy. It's this idea of American exceptionalism, the moral talk and the overt and often naïve religiousness." Of course there is a wide spectrum of European opinion toward the U.S., and not all of it is well-informed. But Senator Chuck Hagel, a Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, told me that his greatest worry about U.S. foreign policy is that "we're losing the next generation." Opinions don't have to be right to have political consequence. Continuing to exacerbate those bad feelings is the Iraq war, which, more than anything else, has divided...
...growing chorus of foreign-policy mandarins from both parties is pushing Bush to make the Iranians a more dramatic offer: face-to-face negotiations. "I don't understand why we are not exercising all of our diplomatic options with Iran, and that begins with talking," says Senator Chuck Hagel, a Nebraska Republican. "Diplomacy is about talking...
...despite the President's occasional public statements, has been virtually non-existent - could move Republicans forward. Or a backlash against the massive protests planned by pro-immigration groups in coming days could make them dig in their heels. The Senate's dealmakers -John McCain, Ted Kennedy, Chuck Hagel, Mel Martinez, Barack Obama and others - say they will continue their weekly meetings in search of a compromise. For now though, as Kennedy put it in what amounted to a major understatement, ?politics got in front of policy...
...Republican House panel concluded last week that Homeland Security Director Michael Chertoff made decisions during Hurricane Katrina "late, ineffectively or not at all." Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was grilled about Iraq by cranky Republican Senators: "I don't see, Madame Secretary, how things are getting better," said Chuck Hagel of Nebraska. "I think things are getting worse. I think they're getting worse in Iraq. I think they're getting worse in Iran." Over at the Senate Intelligence Committee, Republican chairman Pat Roberts suggested that the National Security Agency's no- warrant surveillance program could come under the authority...