Why on earth would that work? 95% of the country probably doesn’t know who’s defense secretary now, and in a week they’ll forget Hagel’s name if ever they knew it. Not to say they’ll blame Obama. Maybe there won’t be any noticeable difference, and maybe if there is the blame’ll get shifted back to the wild cowboy Bush and his “unfunded” war.
Point is they’ll either blame Obama or not, and I don’t see Havel meaning anything one way or another. Unless there’s a scandal waiting to break and they need a Pub for the headlines. Can’t write that off completely.
I was reading a thread from some months ago - in Sept last year - and a poster was saying that they could not understand why Petraus was being so silent about the events in Libya. Reading that now, one has a different view.
There are often things waiting to come out.