How the Chuck Hagel Brawl Exposes Neocons and Reveals the Limits of American Power | Alternet
"Mr. Hagel, a two term Republican Senator from Nebraska, seems as cut-from-the-establishment-cloth as any pick of recent memory. A Vietnam combat veteran and the recipient of two Purple Hearts, he is currently the chairman of the Atlantic Council and a professor at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. His voting record while in the Senate is unremarkable, having maintained B-level ratingsfrom the American Conservative Union and National Taxpayers Union, two of the oldest traditionally conservative lobbying organizations in the country."
