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Wed Sep 12, 2012, 03:21 PM

Who’s Advising Mitt Romney on Foreign Policy?

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Source: ABC News




With Mitt Romney’s comments on Libya drawing attention today–specifically, his criticism of Obama–it’s worth examining whom Romney listens to on such matters.

Dan Senor is one of Romney’s closest advisers on foreign policy. Since Paul Ryan has been selected as the GOP’s vice presidential candidate, Senor has been traveling with Ryan–but today, he left the trail because of the “foreign policy developments” and is in Boston and NYC.

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Romney keeps a large group of foreign-policy advisers, eight of whom participated in the early neoconservative group Project for a New American Century think tank, founded in 1997 and headed by William Kristol, the Nation’s Ari Berman reported in May. In the same month, The New York Times’ Magazine’s David Sanger reported on discontent within that big team, with some complaining that Romney only listens to Bolton.

Romney has long sought to distinguish himself from the president by drawing a contrast between weakness and strength, and his posture is reflected in the team he’s chosen, peppered with luminaries from the Bush administration. The “special advisers”–who do not comprise the entire foreign policy team–are listed on Romney’s campaign website:

Cofer Black
Christopher Burnham
Michael Chertoff
Eliot Cohen
Norm Coleman
John Danilovich
Paula J. Dobriansky
Eric Edelman
Michael Hayden
Kerry Healey
Kim Holmes
Robert Joseph
Robert Kagan
John Lehman
Andrew Natsios
Meghan O’Sullivan
Walid Phares
Pierre Prosper
Mitchell Reiss
Daniel Senor
Jim Talent
Vin Weber
Richard Williamson
Dov Zakheim

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/09/whos-advising-mitt-romney-on-foreign-policy/

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Reply Who’s Advising Mitt Romney on Foreign Policy? (Original post)
cali Sep 2012 OP
elleng Sep 2012 #1
Webster Green Sep 2012 #2
grasswire Sep 2012 #3
kestrel91316 Sep 2012 #4
sofa king Sep 2012 #5
notadmblnd Sep 2012 #6
lamp_shade Sep 2012 #7
Myrina Sep 2012 #19
Nay Sep 2012 #8
Iliyah Sep 2012 #9
KamaAina Sep 2012 #10
BREMPRO Sep 2012 #11
pinto Sep 2012 #12
tclambert Sep 2012 #13
grantcart Sep 2012 #14
REP Sep 2012 #15
Thrill Sep 2012 #16
olddad56 Sep 2012 #17
cosmicone Sep 2012 #18
bullwinkle428 Sep 2012 #20
StateApparatus Sep 2012 #21
awoke_in_2003 Sep 2012 #22
sakabatou Sep 2012 #23
BlueMTexpat Sep 2012 #24
lib2DaBone Sep 2012 #25
rgbecker Sep 2012 #26
cyberswede Sep 2012 #27

Response to cali (Original post)

Wed Sep 12, 2012, 03:24 PM

1. So he knows JUST what to say!!!

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Response to cali (Original post)

Wed Sep 12, 2012, 03:26 PM

2. Senor is disgusting.

The Viceroy's little boot-licker.

I always hated that smarmy little fuckhead.

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Response to cali (Original post)

Wed Sep 12, 2012, 03:26 PM

3. ah the Bush team

It served America so well.

/sarcasm

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Response to cali (Original post)

Wed Sep 12, 2012, 03:26 PM

4. I am thinking Failin Palin is his lead foreign policy adviser.

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Response to cali (Original post)

Wed Sep 12, 2012, 03:28 PM

5. I figured he was staring into the bottom of a hat.

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Response to cali (Original post)

Wed Sep 12, 2012, 03:34 PM

6. Didn't John "Yosemite Sam" Bolton leave W's service in disgrace?

Seems to me that there was some scandal and he resigned?

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Response to cali (Original post)

Wed Sep 12, 2012, 03:37 PM

7. Sarah Palin... apparently.

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Response to lamp_shade (Reply #7)

Wed Sep 12, 2012, 05:11 PM

19. Or TAWD Palin ....

zero sum game, either way.

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Response to cali (Original post)

Wed Sep 12, 2012, 03:45 PM

8. Gotta be a democratic mole. Or a total idiot. nt

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Response to cali (Original post)

Wed Sep 12, 2012, 03:50 PM

9. I'll say Rove, Cheney, Adelson, Koch Brothers,

US Chamber of Commerce, ALEC, but I think the number one is Limpballs, and the rest of W's surrogates but w/o Colin Powell.

I know Rove is fuming at Palin, he hates her! But If I were an adviser, I would tell the GOP to shut the fuck up for at least a day or two and find out more facts (but we know the GOP don't believe in facts huh).

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Response to cali (Original post)

Wed Sep 12, 2012, 04:01 PM

10. These guys?

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Response to cali (Original post)

Wed Sep 12, 2012, 04:01 PM

11. clearly the Military industrial complex is rearing it's ugly head..

it want conflict, war, profit! no surprise if the film was all planned by pNAC and MIC to incite violence an create conditions to make Obama appear weak. That won't work and i see a huge backlash and epic fail from RMoney on this if it is what it appears to be..

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Response to cali (Original post)

Wed Sep 12, 2012, 04:14 PM

12. Isn't John Bolton in the mix, as well?

Would fit the recent scenario.

John Robert Bolton (born November 20, 1948) is an American lawyer and diplomat who has served in several Republican administrations. Appointed on a recess appointment, he served as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from August 2005 until December 2006. He resigned in December 2006, when the recess appointment would have otherwise ended, because he was unlikely to win senate confirmation.

Bolton is currently a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), frequent op-ed contributor to the Wall Street Journal and the National Review, Fox News Channel commentator, and of counsel to the law firm Kirkland & Ellis, in their Washington D.C. office. He is also involved with a broad assortment of other conservative think tanks and policy institutes, including the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), Project for the New American Century (PNAC), Institute of East-West Dynamics, National Rifle Association, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, and the Council for National Policy (CNP). Known for his strong views on foreign policy, often equating diplomacy with weakness and indecisiveness, Bolton is often described as a neoconservative, though he personally rejects the term.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Bolton

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Response to cali (Original post)

Wed Sep 12, 2012, 04:33 PM

13. Don't know who they were, but I overheard them briefing Romney. And it sounded like this:

"Spread out, you numbskulls!"
"Oh, a wise guy."
"Why, I oughta . . ."
"What's the big idea?"
"I'm a victim of soicumstance."
"Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk."

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Response to cali (Original post)

Wed Sep 12, 2012, 04:54 PM

14. Heterosexuals. His expert FP spokesman was fired because he was gay.

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Response to cali (Original post)

Wed Sep 12, 2012, 04:54 PM

15. Locking - doesn't meet SoP for LBN

Please consider reposting in Good Reads or Politics 2012.

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Response to cali (Original post)

Wed Sep 12, 2012, 04:55 PM

16. I thought Senor was the guy?

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Response to cali (Original post)

Wed Sep 12, 2012, 05:00 PM

17. I'd guess... handfull of multi-billionaire white males.

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Response to cali (Original post)

Wed Sep 12, 2012, 05:05 PM

18. From the quality of the advice, more likely Elmer Fudd. n/t

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Response to cali (Original post)

Wed Sep 12, 2012, 05:38 PM

20. What a disgusting "Neocon Hall of Shame" roster.

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Response to cali (Original post)

Wed Sep 12, 2012, 06:17 PM

21. Who's advising Romney?

Why, the hidden hand of the free market, of course.

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Response to cali (Original post)

Wed Sep 12, 2012, 06:22 PM

22. Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz. nt

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Response to cali (Original post)

Wed Sep 12, 2012, 06:24 PM

23. Whoever it is, they're failing so much, you might as well rewrite failblog to include them.

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Response to cali (Original post)

Wed Sep 12, 2012, 06:36 PM

24. Here's a 2011 report from Time

magazine (authored by Halperin) with info about the advisors' backgrounds: http://thepage.time.com/2011/10/06/romney-consolidates/

Based on results of their collective advice as illustrated vividly within the past two months, there are some overhyped individuals who long ago achieved their highest level of incompetence.


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Response to cali (Original post)

Wed Sep 12, 2012, 06:39 PM

25. $13 Trillion missing from U.S. Treasury....

 

I bet this Neocon "Halll Of Shame" knows where every penny is stashed.

Cayman Islands, Switzerland. Just waiting until Romney gets in and they can pick up where Bush Junior left off.

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Response to cali (Original post)

Wed Sep 12, 2012, 07:24 PM

27. Locking...

This is an analysis piece.

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