But he is also vulnerable to the brutal world view of Washington's neo-conservatives.
Lastly, the war has moved the neo-conservatives neo-radicals is perhaps a better word from the outskirts of politics to the centre.
Marshalled by Mr Rove, millions of activists anti-tax people, gun people, social conservatives, neo-conservatives and many more comprehensively outfought their liberal equivalents.
Most neo-conservatives have strong institutional and personal ties to the Bush administration.
For getting on to forty years I have been involved with a group of persons who in the 1970s got labeled from the left neo-conservatives.
Libertarians are fierce defenders of civil liberties, putting them mush closer to the attitudes of ACLU members than those of the still influential GOP neo-conservatives.
Not if the so-called neo-conservatives have anything to do with it.
And few Arabs shed tears over the fall of Mr Allawi's rival, Ahmed Chalabi, denigrated across the Arab world as the buddy of Washington's hated neo-conservatives.
There are also those much-analysed neo-conservatives gathered around Mr Bush.
The neo-conservatives are fretting that the Bush White House (which, lo and behold, they do not control) seems less than committed to their dream of reshaping the Middle East.
For instance, Mr Bush called for the Iranian people to solve their own problems, but he didn't suggest ways to foment popular resistance to clerical rule, as many neo-conservatives had hoped.
But even while he was still a Republican Senator, Hagel exhibited a sort of ecumenical internationalism that favored coalition warfare and collective security over the kind of unilateralism embraced by some neo-conservatives.
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Ayman Nour, the head of the oppositionist Ghad Party and the man heralded as the liberal democratic alternative to Mubarak by Washington neo-conservatives has called for the peace treaty to be abrogated.
But while Mr Hagel has many detractors among the neo-conservatives, he does not lack supporters in other political circles, including more centrist pro-Israeli groups such as J Street and the Israel Policy Forum.
" The former are increasingly caricatured as "neo-conservatives.
The modern party gets much of its intellectual energy from Jewish neo-conservatives, much of its organisational dynamism from Southern Baptists, and much of its social tone from the likes of Dennis Hastert, a former high-school wrestling coach.
By commenting approvingly that Obama has created a new climate in international politics, with emphasis on the role of diplomacy and of the United Nations, the Nobel Committee is clearly encouraging the new president, after just eight months in office, to continue with a style that Europeans find much more comfortable than that of Bush and the neo-conservatives.
The Alliance is a bold effort to reshape Canada's right by merging Reform, a federal neo-conservative party of Albertan origin, with sections of the Progressive Conservatives.
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