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Even Republican Chuck Hagel believes it's time for change... The Bush admistration has succeeded in tipping the political scales so far to the right that even those in his own party believe that our country is in need of change. Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE) spoke recently at the Center for American Progress stating: “The world does not want an America that imposes, that dictates, that lectures, that preaches, that invades, nor occupies... “Reintroducing America to the world will be as important as any one thing this next president has to do,” Hagel asserted. In order to do this, he said, “we need to reverse the optics,” concentrating less on how we see the world, and more on how the world sees us. If there’s one thing that Iraq has taught us, Hagel emphasized, quoting General David Petraeus, it’s that, “There is no military solution in Iraq.” What’s more, he said, “military power alone will not achieve the great objectives that are going to be required to meet these 21st-century challenges.” Hagel called on the United States to renew international institutions and diplomacy, returning to a model built after World War II, when “we defined our relationships not by our differences, but by our common interests.” Main Stream's blog | login to post comments
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