The security of the United States is too important for partisan politics

Here's a great piece from The Hill about why Chuck Hagel should not be Secretary of Defense. And most of it has nothing to do with Israel.

On the merits, Chuck Hagel is wrong for secretary of Defense, and that’s
all that should matter. With Americans in the military serving across
the globe, and at a time of growing challenges to national security and
extraordinary pressures on the defense