“Getting rid of Hagel is not a cure for what ails Obama’s national security team —
it’s a symptom of the disease.

Source: www.foreignpolicy.com

"No, Hagel’s alienation, the tension between him and the White House, and the military leadership’s burgeoning frustration with the false starts, half-measures, and micromanagement that have marked the administration’s Iraq and Syria campaigns are signs of much deeper problems that lie within the way the president himself operates and, from a process perspective, from the way that his National Security Council (NSC) operates…It is a further sign that this is a president resistant to growth or to finding a way to effectively advance the national security interests of the United States."

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