Does Obama's new think tank 'Center for a New American Security' just more of the 'Project for a New American Century'? (Iraq, middle east)

[KRAMERCAT]

"if you hated the Project for a New American Century you’re going to despise the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), the freshly minted Washington think-tank that seems to have been granted the foreign policy franchise by the Obama administration.
I have written about their nation-building counter-insurgency doctrine at length: it is based on the alleged success of the Iraqi surge – or Surge, as our columnist Kelley Vlahos terms it – and its principal author is Gen. David Petraeus, the Bush administration’s Caesar-like figure whose exploits are now claimed by both parties.
The Bushies may be out of power, but their dream of a regional transformation in the Middle East lives on in the CNAS-Petraeus COIN strategy, whose advocates boast of their ability to effect change on whole societies. It is a liberal version of the same old imperialist game, this time played in the name of global uplift. It is neoconservatism with a human face.
These left-neocons have their own cadre of experts, who are trotted out to imbue our current wrong-headed policy of escalating the Afghan war and dragging in Pakistan with an aura of faux credibility. Prominent among these is Tom Ricks, the Washington Post’s Pentagon correspondent and a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security."
Justin Raimondo

The Rule of the ‘Experts’ by Justin Raimondo -- Antiwar.com

[cleanhouse]

It is all part of the New World Order. This is not the work of Obama but the puppeteers behind him.

[Canerican]

What's wrong with think tanks? Is there any concrete evidence that this has a disproportionate influence on the Messiah's foreign policy?

[KRAMERCAT]

Originally Posted by Canerican

What's wrong with think tanks? Is there any concrete evidence that this has a disproportionate influence on the Messiah's foreign policy?

What's wrong with think tanks? Can you spell PNAC?

[freefall]

they all boil down to

PNAS (project for the next american screwjob)

[delusianne]

this is from antiwar.com -nice if we could have all the troops home now and everyone be brothers in peace and harmony, but reality is different.

also seems nothing like PNAC - no big grandiose schemes for a Pax Americana, just typical think-tank meetings and discussions.

http://www.cnas.org/about/milestones

[ELOrocks17]

Originally Posted by KRAMERCAT

What's wrong with think tanks? Can you spell PNAC?

I realize you are probably drooling all over your keyboard at the thought of Obama's "Brownshirts" taking to the streets to silence any voice of opposition, but at least try to act civil

[KRAMERCAT]

Originally Posted by ELOrocks17

I realize you are probably drooling all over your keyboard at the thought of Obama's "Brownshirts" taking to the streets to silence any voice of opposition, but at least try to act civil

Look who is talking - the 'drooling brownshirt' himself.

[NCN]

I just wish he would keep his face off TV. Every time he talks to America the stock market goes down.

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Originally Posted by NCN

I just wish he would keep his face off TV. Every time he talks to America the stock market goes down.

You are incorrect, he has constantly been on tv for the first 3 months, and the market has soared.