Special to WorldTribune.com
By Rowan Scarborough, Washington Times
Dogged critics of President George W. Bush’s foreign policies suddenly have found that managing the world, and radical Islam, is not as easy as it looked from the outside six or more years ago.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, as a senator and ex-senator, was perhaps Mr. Bush’s most punishing reviewer.
He said of the Bush administration in 2007: “It is my opinion that this is one of the most arrogant, incompetent administrations I’ve ever seen personally or ever read about — the most arrogant in history.”
At the Council on Foreign Relations in a talk on national security, he said:
“I would rate this one the lowest in capacity, in capability, in policy, in consensus — almost every area, I would give it the lowest grade.”
Last week, nearly six years into the Obama administration, Mr. Hagel addressed troops and said, “The world is exploding all over.”
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