Chuck Hagel cannot be trusted as Defence Secretary

New Secretary of Defence Chuck Hagel testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee (AP)

And his credibility has been left in shreds. That's the assertion of those right-on neocons at Commentary magazine, or at least writer Jonathan S Tobin. He's dismayed by Hagel's performance during a Senate hearing, and says that it proved beyond doubt that he isn't up to the job and cannot be trusted.

Here's Tobin's pay-off: "Chuck Hagel demonstrated today that he isn’t fit for such a senior post. His incompetent testimony should have embarrassed the president and backers like Chuck Schumer, who gambled his own reputation on a man who has little credibility. That may not be enough to derail a nomination that is being rammed through on a partisan basis by the Senate’s majority caucus. But today’s disappointing show by Hagel shamed not just Democrats but a nation whose defense is being entrusted to an incompetent liar."