Hagel confirmation; symbolic unhitching of American foreign policy from AIPAC warmongers

In confirming Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense the Obama administration has taken a giant step forward in freeing America from Likud authorship of its foreign policy.

There can be no question that this is long over-due.

For a generation the American public has been lulled into the belief that the war-mongers of Likud speak for Israel.

They don't and they never have.

But thanks to AIPAC, most Americans have been under the impression that they do.

The Hagel confirmation is a stunning rebuke of the AIPAC lobby.