tele: Interesting. Sometimes I think this is all some sort of show.
To make it look as though Obama is independent.
Maybe, but I'm not sure that we should be that cynical concerning Obama. True enough, he's owned by the Jєωιѕн lobby, but that it not to say that he does not have a genuine animus towards Israel. I think he might. He resists the Lobby like no recent president of recent memory.
This is an observation I've made as well.
Clearly this if anything must prove that Machiavelli lives and is flourishing like rarely before on the banks of the Potomac River. Let's remember that the people involved in all this are not Catholics and therefore have the morals of the heathen or worse. Usually very much worse.
Looks to me like Hagel was actually expressing no small contempt for those self-proclaimed Paragons of Virtue in the Senate Chamber. He wasn't truly groveling to them but rather not bothering to take them seriously. Their questions were all bad jokes in bad taste and Hagel answered them in kind. We should remember that Hagel has no Roman Catholic honor to defend. He is but a virtuous Protestant Pagan and as such he slithers and creeps to achieve his own self-interest. It is the Protestant Way. In fact in my humble opinion Hagel's answers even indicate no small degree of hatred in his heart for the "good" Senators who so crudely threw mud at him the other day. Also in my humble opinion, those same Senators were awesome and world-class fools to so publicly insult the next Secretary of Defense of the Pentagon.
What a bunch of idiots! My Catholic brothers, please mark my words. The day is not far off when those Republican Senators will rue the day they humiliated a man about to be trillions of times more powerful than themselves. Not smart. Not wise. We should learn from those Senators and, while they are being led off to their shining guillotines, we should be most careful only to say nice and respectful things about the bizarrely and monstrously powerful Mr. Hagel.
Unlike certain suicidal idiots on Capital Hill, we are to keep in the good graces of Mr. Hagel. Politically speaking, he is our ticket to an approaching Catholic world-domination. We must have only good things to say about him in public. Because our Napoleon Bonaparte is likely to have an extremely good memory when the time comes. And, yes, we can bet the bank on it. That time will indeed come with all the certainty that the vivid insights of Niccolo Machiavelli and Giambattista Vico can offer.
It is not wise to publicly insult the most powerful men needlessly. Those who do always pay a very heavy price for it later on. We Catholics must learn from Machiavelli and Vico and remember that politics is a serious business. The coming guillotines will have plenty of work to do even without us. And no doubt Senator Graham's pretty head will look very fine in its awaiting thatch basket. Because our Protestant friend Mr. "Chuck Hagel Bonaparte" will have had a most eager hand in dropping it there.