Hagel hearings: Is Israel more important than Afghanistan? - LAtimes

Time magazine published a bar graph showing how many times various members of the Senate Armed Services Committee mentioned Israel and Afghanistan. With the exception of committee Chairman Carl Levin, both Republicans and Democrats obsessed about Israel and gave short shrift to a war in which 66,000 American troops are engaged and which has cost 2,177 American lives. Eleven senators didn’t mention Afghanistan at all.  Hagel hearings: Is Israel more important than Afghanistan?  - Michael McGough