Reply #10: he handed control of US foreign policy over to agents of a foreign power

[dusmcj]

I think that would be a fair characterization of PNAC given the proven close association of many of its principals with conservative Israeli political circles.

The President and his administration has directly threatened and harmed the soundness of the structure of American government:

- by removing security-related activities from oversight by accountable representatives of the people or failing to require that newly-conceived security activities have such oversight to an adequate degree.

- by bypassing or subverting the legally established national structures for intelligence analysis and dissemination in an attempt to have a preconceived policy based on ideology to the exclusion of fact be implemented.

- by placing unqualified persons in critical government positions as a reward for political reliability.

- by taking the policy position documents of a political interest/pressure group (PNAC) and adopting them as the basis for the foreign policy of the United States, rather than formulating that policy in a bipartisan fashion and based on the input of persons with qualifications in the field.

Long on posture, short on capability, it's the conservative way.