Chuck Hagel is definitely off to a running start as the newest US Secretary of Defense. He is the 24th to hold that position, and his political affiliation is Republican. He is 66 years old, so definitely a baby boomer. He knows what war is, so going to a country where there is war is nothing new to him.
Since this suicide bombing referred to in the video, he has had news conferences with himself and President Hamid Karzai cancelled. It is going to be a rough time when coalition forces leave Afghanistan. We have been there for 12 years now. That is just incredible.
Will US forces leave in 2014? What sort of country will we leave? I am sure that there is not one person in the US who either is close to someone who has served in the military in Afghanistan of is a family member. Several do not come home the same. Is the toughness that the veterans of WW1 and WW2 gone? Or did they come home to a different America? Now so many come home to unemployment, they have injuries that VA benefits barely cover, and they have emotional trouble that most Veterans probably had but were not really focused on.
I wish everyone the best who is effected world wide by this war in the Mideast. Will it ever end? I highly doubt it. Will we get our troops out? Yes, but for how long I am not sure.
*Several statements are just my opinions, and not from any news source.
However, I did use The Washington Post for some of the information on this posting.
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