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marine corps over there. no. i think the question is there going to be a more aggressive attempt to, say, use nato, you know, do you start the process with ukraine and the nato process more aggressively? do you fully make georgia a member? they have been sort of sitting in this no man s land. how aggressively do you use nato here as a check on putin and that has been, i think, one of the substantive disagreements particularly among sort of the shrinking hawk wing of the republican party that has been very vocal. mccain and bob corker and folks like and that where the administration is going. i think it s the administration this has just been standard obama for the last five or six years in a situation like this, it s going to be a slow increase in what they do on this sanction front. for some it s never going to be fast enough. it does seem to me the criticism that is coming from mccain and
orthodoxy about his role and that war and that surge because that s the dividing line for him about who s a real patriot and who s not. and that fundamentally was what much of the hearing was about today. are you genuinely a patriot and see the world like we in the kind of national security hawk wing of the gop do, or do but i think hagel, you know, while he s not going to be given credits for the most eloquent glad-handing senator or defense secretary, he seemed like a thought. sergeant who had been on the front line, who gave i think a very compelling set of reasons why this surge didn t deserve a binary yes-no response. steve, big picture, you re talking about how john mccain made his role in the politics of this very central to today s hearing, and i hear that s absolutely what happened. and that s absolutely one of the things that s so important even beyond this nomination. i mean, looking at james inhofe stumbling over trying to attack chuck hagel on nuclear issues and other
1,200 americans died during that time, thousands of others wounded. and by the way, if you take a look at the scene, much of the sunni leadership in iraq had been run out of the country. by maliki. and the experiment looks fragile. so what did you get? and many people think it wasn t the deployment of the u.s. forces, it was the essentially hiring or bribing, if you will, of young sunnis that helped stabilize that. so there s a legitimate conversation that could be had. and john mccain didn t want a conversation. he wanted to enforce an orthodoxy about his role and that war and that surge because that s the dividing line for him about who s a real patriot and who s not. and that fundamentally was what much of the hearing was about today. are you genuinely a patriot and see the world like we in the kind of national security hawk wing of the gop do, or do but i think hagel, you know, while he s not going to be given credits for the most eloquent glad-handing senator or defense secretar
stabilize that. so there s a legitimate conversation that could be had. and john mccain didn t want a conversation. he wanted to enforce an orthodoxy about his role and that war and that surge because that s the dividing line for him about who s a real patriot and who s not. and that fundamentally was what much of the hearing was about today. are you genuinely a patriot and see the world like we in the kind of national security hawk wing of the gop do, or do but i think hagel, you know, while he s not going to be given credits for the most eloquent glad-handing senator or defense secretary, he seemed like a thoughtful sergeant who had been on the front line, who gave i think a very compelling set of reasons why this surge didn t deserve a binary yes-no response. steve, big picture, you re talking about how john mccain made his role in the politics of this very central to today s hearing, and i hear that s absolutely what happened. and that s absolutely one of the things that s so i