U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel lost his battle with a kitchen cabinet earlier this week, and suffered a significant face wound in the process.
Sec of @DeptofDefense Chuck Hagel sports big bandage at #VeteransDay events; said to have run into a kitchen cabinet. pic.twitter.com/cV0FaZxQ0T
— ChuckGoudie (@ChuckGoudieABC7) November 11, 2014
The embarrassing defeat, which is being spun as a "minor kitchen mishap," is another example of American decline in the Obama era.