Wednesday, January 9, 2013
More about Hagel
Allen Ruff’s reasons suck, especially this one.
Currently a member of the board of directors of Chevron, Hagel led the charge in 1997 to block ratification of the Kyoto Protocol, the international agreement that would have committed the US and other industrial nations to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
The Hagel-Byrd Resolution, co-authored by the coal-friendly Democrat, West Virginia’s Robert Byrd, argued that the Kyoto failed to include developing countries and posed barriers to US economic expansion.
Hagel was right, and so was Byrd.
But the rest of the article is completely depressing to anyone hoping for a “Little England” policy for America.
Hagel’s peacenik, isolationist credentials seem to have been much exaggerated.
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