As the public conversation in America remains preoccupied, as it rightly should, with our ongoing anger at the injustice perpetrated in Ferguson, other issues of equal importance are slipping by without the degree of attention they deserve. The resignation of Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense is one such issue.
That resignation should have triggered a wide-ranging discussion on the direction of US foreign policy and the adequacy of the Obama administration’s response to a seemingly endless series of global crises. In particular, it should have enabled us to explore whether this is the right moment to ramp up US military …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
