The U.S. and Global Security Review - Blog by Michael Novakhov

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M.N.: Demagogue - "community organizer" ( Alinsky 's student), ideologue - inspirational manipulative "preacher", paranoid controlling "micro-manager", cool (cold, detached, revengeful, angry) "transformer", and with all this - a "good person": warm, humane, caring, responsible, deep, not a show-off, has and enjoys a sense of humor, likes a comfortable and easy  petit bourgeois  life ( mentality determines class ), knows and appreciates the role and value of money. We are paradoxical creatures , our lives - paradoxical phenomena and  experiences .  _____________________________________________ " Like the defense secretaries in the Obama administration who preceded him, Hagel, in an interview with Foreign Policy magazine published Friday, said he was the subject of repeated political micromanagement. In his case, the former Republican senator from Nebraska and decorated Vietnam War veteran suggested there had been a...