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Hagel gets Eisenhower all wrong
WaPo's David Ignatius reports that Chuck Hagel is a big fan of Dwight Eisenhower, and particularly of Eisenhower's handling of the 1956 Suez crisis (known here as the Sinai campaign).
The British, French and Israelis — unbeknown to Eisenhower and his
advisers — were secretly plotting to roll back Nasser’s control of Suez.
Their tripartite alliance, code-named “Operation Musketeer,” was