Hope! Change! Bringing Back the 90s!
Here, according to Matthew Yglesias is Barack Obama’s “working group” on foreign policy.
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
Senator David Boren, former Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
Secretary of State Warren Christopher
Greg Craig, former director of the State Department Office of Policy Planning
Secretary of the Navy Richard Danzig
Representative Lee Hamilton, former Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee
Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder
Dr. Tony Lake, former National Security Advisor
Senator Sam Nunn, former Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Secretary of Defense William Perry
Dr. Susan Rice, former Assistant Secretary of State
Representative Tim Roemer, 9/11 Commissioner
Jim Steinberg, former Deputy National Security Advisor
This group pretty much has the abject stink of failure all over it. Richard Danzig, smells particularly of Pooh. If you need some reminders about who these folks are and what wreckage most of them left in their wakes, think back through the 1990s to our worst foreign policy failures: North Korea entering the nuclear weapon club, the mostly-ignored rise of Islamism, the inept handling of Haiti, severe cuts to our military and intelligence agencies, and unacknowledged genocide in Somalia and Rwanda. This is the crew that Barack Obama wants to advise him on how to deal with current threats on our lives.
(via memeorandum)
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Category: The Obamessiah, The World At Large
Hell, W resurrected how many of the surviving (and not incarcerated) members of the frigging Nixon administration!
spoots, it's not their age. It's their history of abject failure.
W did not run on the promise of audacious changiness though, did he?
I also noticed, in sort of a sidelong way, how incredible pale that group is, with the exception of Susan Rice.
J: "spoots, it’s not their age. It’s their history of abject failure."
If you wanna talk about the rise of Islamism, the best place to look to is our support for the mujahadeen of Afghanistan (thanks, St. Ronnie!). The Norks had nukes under GHWB. Haiti has had massive problems under W. Genocide has continued unabated in Darfur under W.
"I also noticed, in sort of a sidelong way, how incredible pale that group is"
The implication being… what? That Obama doesn't like minorities? Uh huh. Why do you waste our time with this crap?
No implication, spoots.
Hope! Change!
By the by, I'm not wasting your time. If you feel that reading the comments I leave is a waste of your time, you have a very simple means of not doing so anymore.