The Neoconservative Reference List

[Brian4Liberty]

Is that prick Kissinger still kicking?

Don't think he is really functional anymore.

I'll revise that and add him as Dr. Evil is still spewing his "advise"...

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Several Jeb Bush advisers linked or added.

 

[Mach]

Who isn't a NEO?

Once they bleed their agendas into the average mindset, the term, at least, is no longer needed.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Notes on Senator Tom Cotton:

The last, best hope for GOP hawks?
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Arizona Sen. John McCain and South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, the Senate’s leading GOP hawks, have both reached out to Cotton to urge him into the 2014 Senate race...

The Weekly Standard, the flagship publication for national security conservatives, has obsessively promoted Cotton’s speeches and campaign activities. Cotton has been close with the Standard’s editor, Bill Kristol, since striking up a friendship over email while deployed in uniform...

His most enthusiastic fans are less concerned about keeping up appearances. Republican strategist Michael Goldfarb, a former McCain spokesman and himself a Weekly Standard alum, called Cotton “one of a vanguard” of fresh-faced hawks...

Tom Cotton's Neocon Recklessness
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Tom Cotton, the freshman senator from Arkansas, Iraq war veteran, and protege of William Kristol...

Neocon meteor Sen. Cotton is funded by Abrams, Adelson and Kristol and loves war a little too much
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The neoconservatives reached out and groomed Tom Cotton when they saw him coming down the pike. The Harvard College and Harvard Law grad spent just one term in the Congress before challenging and defeating Mark Pryor last fall.
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Neoconservative Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin embraced Cotton back in 2012.
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The sixth-generation Arkansan who grew up on a cattle farm read Leo Strauss the neocon icon when he was in college.
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Kristol’s Emergency Committee for Israel bankrolled the Cotton campaign with $1 million...

GOP’s New Foreign Policy Hero Is a Surveillance-Loving Interventionist Nightmare
...Freshman Sen. Tom Cotton wants to invade Iran and Syria, jail journalists and whistleblowers, eavesdrop on Americans
...Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol's biggest new political protégé, and also a target of sustained affection from National Review...

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Joshua Muravchik added to the list.

Related thread:
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?470784-WaPo-War-with-Iran-is-probably-our-best-option/

 

[Krugminator2]

That's a solid list. Here's my contribution:

David Frum for his demented Unpatriotic Conservatives column at the start of the Iraq War calling out anyone who opposed the war. Also he has extremely liberal economic views. http://www.nationalreview.com/article/391772/unpatriotic-conservatives-david-frum

John Hinderaker from Powerline Blog for wondering if Rand Paul was quoting Pink Floyd lyrics as an anti-Semitic dog whistle. http://www.powerlineblog.com/archiv...rejudice-rear-its-head-in-his-cpac-speech.php

 

[Brian4Liberty]

That's a solid list. Here's my contribution:

David Frum for his demented Unpatriotic Conservatives column at the start of the Iraq War calling out anyone who opposed the war. Also he has extremely liberal economic views. http://www.nationalreview.com/article/391772/unpatriotic-conservatives-david-frum

John Hinderaker from Powerline Blog for wondering if Rand Paul was quoting Pink Floyd lyrics as an anti-Semitic dog whistle. http://www.powerlineblog.com/archiv...rejudice-rear-its-head-in-his-cpac-speech.php

Added them. Frum is obvious, but not sure about Hindraker. I'm not familiar with him. Generally looking for more than simply foreign policy as criteria for addition. He does call himself a neoconservative at times. Does he have any socialist or big government leanings?

 

[enhanced_deficit]

True neoconservatives:
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- Stephen Hadley (Jeb adviser)
- Pastor John Hagee
- Sean Hannity
- Jane Harmon
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- James Kirchick
- Sen. Mark Kirk
- Henry Kissinger (McCain, Christie, Cruz adviser)
- Charles Krauthammer
- Bill Kristol (Ryan, Jindal, Rubio adviser)
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- John Lehman (McCain, Romney adviser)
- Yuval Levin (Ryan, Rubio adviser)
- Sen. Joe Lieberman
- William Luti (Perry adviser)
- Sen. John McCain
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- Jennifer Rubin
- Michael Rubin
- Sen. Marco Rubio
- Donald Rumsfeld
- Haim Saban (Hillary Clinton adviser, Billionaire donor)
- Mark Salter (McCain, Kirkpatrick adviser)
- Sen. Chuck Schumer

..

EM.

Neocons bi-partisan puppet show goes on.

Obama considered Jane Harman for top CIA position despite connection to Israel-AIPAC spy scandal

Henry Kissinger tells Christiane Amanpour: 'I support President Obama' on Syria






Lieberman keeps Homeland Security post
Lieberman credits Obama after Dems let him keep post

Obama Tells Haim Saban “Israel’s Security Is Sacrosanct”




Top Officials Join Obama in Brief Visit to Saudi King
www.nytimes.com/.../obama-leading-a-high-powered...The New York Times
Jan 27, 2015 - RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — President Obama met with King Salman of ... his Republican opponent from 2008, Senator John McCain of Arizona, ...

 

[Anti-Neocon]

Added them. Frum is obvious, but not sure about Hindraker. I'm not familiar with him. Generally looking for more than simply foreign policy as criteria for addition. He does call himself a neoconservative at times. Does he have any socialist or big government leanings?

I'd say just add Powerline blog to the media list, although it may not even be popular enough to deserve singling out.

 

[Todd]

You may want to add Francis Fukuyama to your list.

Although he has renounced his beliefs and changed his opinions....anyone picking up any of his writings; studies etc... will get exposure to some of the foundations of Neoconservative ideology.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Notes on Rick Reed:

Mr. Reed is also a long-time strategist for Mr. McCain, working for his 2000 presidential campaign and briefly for his 2008 campaign, before it ran short on money and trimmed its operations.

Financed mainly by McCain backers, the Foundation for a Secure and Prosperous America was created with the help of Republican ad maker Rick Reed. He called himself a volunteer with McCain's presidential effort earlier this year, and he is close to McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis.

The Foundation for a Secure and Prosperous America (FSPA) is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit corporation that "operates independently" from the 2008 presidential campaign of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), "but was set up and financed by his supporters seeking to help him as much as possible up to the limits of the law,"

Rick Reed has written and produced the advertising for Senator Lindsey Graham (SC),

 

[ord33]

I think John Hannah deserves to be on the list:

http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Hannah_John
http://thinkprogress.org/security/2007/02/12/10260/hannah-iran/
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/John_Hannah
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Cheney_aide_cooperating_with_CIA_outing_1018.html


He is a Senior Fellow with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (Neoconservative group), former national security aide to Dick Cheney, was responsible for gathering evidence for WMD for the 2003 Iraq War, and has been named as a foreign policy advisor to Jeb Bush.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

I think John Hannah deserves to be on the list:

http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Hannah_John
http://thinkprogress.org/security/2007/02/12/10260/hannah-iran/
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/John_Hannah
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Cheney_aide_cooperating_with_CIA_outing_1018.html


He is a Senior Fellow with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (Neoconservative group), former national security aide to Dick Cheney, was responsible for gathering evidence for WMD for the 2003 Iraq War, and has been named as a foreign policy advisor to Jeb Bush.

Good call. Added.

 

[rg17]

Bump

 

[rg17]

Add Donald Trump to the neocon list

 

[Anti-Neocon]

Add Donald Trump to the neocon list

He's just an idiot with a big mouth. Trump and Rand are the only two who aren't completely in line with the neocons, so it wouldn't make sense to list him.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Notes on the John Hay Initiative:

The Neocon Foreign Policy Walmart
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So little do Republican candidates care about foreign policy that most of them have “outsourced” their foreign policy to a single neocon-dominated foreign policy shop called the “John Hay Initiative.” If you wonder why most Republican candidates sound exactly the same on foreign policy, it’s because they are nearly all getting their advice from the same people.

When nearly all candidates look to someone like Eliot Cohen, a founding member of the Project for a New American Century (PNAC), to provide an off-the-shelf foreign policy, it should be no surprise that the “debate” in the Republican party is only over which country to attack first.
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But the neocons love it! The “experts” who brought us the 2003 Iraq war and the Libya “liberation” are still in the driver’s seat when it comes to foreign policy.

“Jeb!” has John Hay Initiative members Michael Chertoff and Michael Hayden (remember those crooks?) on board as his advisors.

Marco Rubio reportedly draws from Hay Project member Roger Zakheim, the son of GW Bush administration “vulcan,” Dov Zakheim. Zakheim père, we remember, joined with his fellow neocons to lie the US into war with Iraq, enriching the military-industrial complex, before absconding to the “private sector” to make his millions from the same military-industrial complex. Zakheim quickly and quietly left his position as the Pentagon’s chief financial officer after a trillion dollars went missing and the Government Accountability Office was critical of his handling of matters.

Scott Walker, a soporific candidate who nevertheless still gives neocons like Bill Kristol the vapors, also shops the neocon Walmart of foreign policy, the John Hay Initiative. ... Walker reportedly taps into the McCain Institute’s David Kramer, a John Hay member, for his foreign policy wisdom. Kramer is another PNAC alumni...
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John Hay Initiative “experts” also wrote the foreign policy speeches of candidates Carly Fiorina and Chris Christie.
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The neocons are staging a comeback, fighting Obama’s Iran nuke deal along with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.
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Searching the web, one finds neocons pushing plenty of buttons to get a sufficiently belligerent Republican elected in 2016. A new group calling itself the John Hay Initiative is tutoring GOP candidates on foreign policy. It claims to be nonpolitical, but its three “educators” are neocons. In addition to Edelman, they include Eliot Cohen, former aide to Bush’s deputy defense secretary, Paul Wolfowitz (Cohen claims to be one of the first neocons to advocate war against both Iraq and Iran), and lawyer Brian Hook, who warns that weak foreign policy “always carries a high price tag.”

These three say they’ve already written speeches for Carly Fiorina and Chris Christie and briefed Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, Marco Rubio, Rick Perry, Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham, and several others. Only Rand Paul and Donald Trump have thus far failed to drink the neocon Kool-Aid.

Neocons started feeling better about themselves right after the 2014 elections, when the GOP captured the Senate. Kristol said that he sensed “more willingness to rethink” the neocon dogma, which was “vindicated to some degree” by Obama’s alleged weakness. The FPI held a postelection conference last December called “A World in Crisis,” with kindred spirits expressing their worries. Speakers included Robert Kagan; Senator Bob Corker, now chair of the Foreign Relations Committee, who is leading the opposition to the Iran deal; Fred Hiatt, editorial-page editor at The Washington Post; and Senators John McCain, Ted Cruz, and Tom Cotton.
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Republican Candidates Outsource Their Foreign Policy

There's a good reason so many GOP candidates seem to be well-prepared yet uncannily in sync when it comes to foreign policy: Most of them have tapped the same group of experts for guidance, a shadow foreign policy campaign infrastructure just waiting for a nominee to emerge.
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The Hay Initiative helped write recent foreign policy speeches for Carly Fiorina and Chris Christie, speeches that struck very similar notes. Members have also briefed Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham and others.

 

[PaleoPaul]

Does Colin Powell count? Or is he more of a hawk who didn't end up going full neocon?

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Notes on Cesar Conda:

Cesar Conda is a former lobbyist, and was the domestic policy chief adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney, and Marco Rubio's chief of staff from 2011 to 2014.

Marco Rubio Wants to Make Neocons Cool Again
Meet the Bush-era the hawks who have shaped the presidential hopeful's foreign policy views.

A former domestic policy aide to Cheney, Cesar Conda, served as Rubio's chief of staff in the Senate and is now a part-time adviser.
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http://www.motherjones.com/politics...eocon-advisers-bush-council-foreign-relations

It’s not that the neoconservatives have disappeared, exactly. Conda, who tried to organize that late anti-Paul surge in 2010, is now chief of staff to Sen. Marco Rubio. (He chose not to comment for this story.) Jamie Fly, who co-founded the hawkish Foreign Policy Initiative with Bill Kristol—right around the time Kristol founded “Keep America Safe” with Liz Cheney—is now Rubio’s counseler on foreign policy.

Revolving door from lobbying to politicians:
https://www.opensecrets.org/revolving/rev_summary.php?id=28875

Top Cheney Aide Opposes Rand Paul...“On foreign policy, [global war on terror], Gitmo, Afghanistan, Rand Paul is NOT one of us,” Cesar Conda wrote in an e-mail to figures such as Liz Cheney, William Kristol, Robert Kagan, Dan Senor and Marc Thiessen.

http://www.unitedliberty.org/articles/8268-not-one-of-us-the-fall-of-neoconservatism

 

[enhanced_deficit]

Perhaps a word on "objective neutrality" of war champs of NYT reporting on mideast conflicts merits inclusion in such lists also.
Apparently sons of at least 3 NYT "journalists" were fighting for Israeli military to help maintain its US funded occupation of Palestinians.

No Surprise Dep’t: David Brooks’s son is in Israeli army
US Politics
Philip Weiss on September 24, 2014
http://mondoweiss.net/2014/09/surprise-brookss-israeli/