[Personal Responsibility]

Who should we believe? The general or chuck hagel?

If this is a tough question, you’re on the wrong board.

[SkyPilot]

I believe Hagel is a horrible SECDEF (perhaps the worst in US history), placed in the job by Obama because he shared his contempt for Israel and also because Obama thought (correctly) that getting a "Republican" SECDEF to gut the military would give him political cover.

I think Gen Dempsey is a political general who does not rock the boat, although from today's testimony it was obvious that he was much more pessimistic than Hagel, and repeatedly signaled to the Senators (in both body language and words) that the defense cuts are disastrous. However, I still believe he will do the bidding of his masters.