The reason I bring this up is because late last week, presidential hopeful Mitt Romney released his list of foreign advisors... something that Rachel Maddow looked at in great detail in the following clip.
The crux of the video addresses how Mitt Romney tapped a slew of former George W Bush foreign policy advisors and former members of neoconservative think tanks from the late nineties and from early in W Bush's presidency.
One of those think tanks was The Project For the New American Century, a group that actively campaigned to get our 9/11 response to include an invasion of Iraq. While the group is now defunct, the website still exists here. Maddow half-jokingly describes it as a collection of all the worst foreign policy ideas from the last decade together in one place. She goes on to say that
...with the greatest foreign policy failure in American history hung around their necks, with the Project for the New American Century neocon fantasy a punchline now, Mitt Romney, as a presidential candidate has decided to embrace them.Romney tapped six former members of The Project and three out of four members of the group that picked up where The Project left off when it dissolved (the Foreign Policy Initiative). One of the guys, Cofer Black, helps head up the security group Blackwater. Another guy, who Romney signed up for his anti-proliferation team, was the guy who pushed for President Bush to include the crap about British intelligence reporting that Iraq was all up in Niger's business trying to acquire yellow cake uranium.
As Maddow rightly points out, if you've screwed up that badly in a particular area, you should be disqualified from ever working in that area again, and I tend to agree.
No comments:
Post a Comment