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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRubio Announces His Neocon Dream Team (a "Bush adminstration alumni club")
Marco Rubio isn't just the final, fading hope of the GOP establishment. He's also the last torch-bearer of neoconservative foreign policy left in the 2016 race. So it's no surprise that Rubio's just-announced foreign policy team features some of the big-name neocons who have shaped his hawkish views for years.
Among the 18 members of Rubio's new "National Security Advisory Council," which his campaign announced on Monday, are Elliott Abrams, a former special assistant to President George W. Bush who's best known for lying to Congress about the Reagan administration's role in the Iran-Contra scandal; Eliot Cohen, a historian, Iraq war supporter, and lawyer at the State Department during the Bush administration; Michael Chertoff, the secretary of homeland security during Bush's second term; and Michael Mukasey, a Bush administration attorney general.
Abrams and Cohen were members of the Project for a New American Century, an early-2000s group of neconservatives who pushed for big increases in defense spending, more American military intervention abroad, regime change in Iraq, and other policies that became Bush administration staples. Rubio's foreign policy vision is basically ripped from the group's platform: He wants to pour money into expanding the military, ramp up missile defense, get aggressive with both Iran and China, and expand the US role in Syria. He also adds modern touches, including beefing up the country's ability to conduct cyberattacks and rolling back reforms to the Patriot Act in order to reinstate the mass surveillance program that Congress ended last year.
Rubio has reached out to leading neocons ever since his campaign began last year, and even asked visitors to his website to "Join Marco's Fight For A New American Century!"
Blasphemer
(3,261 posts)tanyev
(42,360 posts)Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)...when confronted with that during the debates. If I can remember correctly, it was Cruz who hit him with that, and he didn't respond. He just stood there with an idiot grin, just like he did when making the Trump "fingers" jokes.
CrispyQ
(36,231 posts)dawnie51
(959 posts)Mindless robot monkey, with all the same handlers, the rogue's gallery of neo-cons and war criminals who are salivating at the prospect of resuming their murderous agenda. No wonder I can barely tolerate looking at this guy. Just a younger, possibly sober Bush. He;s the new W!
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Reportedly has, or has had, 2 mistresses, both blond lobbyists, one living within minutes of his Fla. home,
one in Wash. DC.
I am SO waiting for a reputable source on this.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)They can clearly play polo, with Marco!
What they need, is total power.
They need TP for a new american century!
flamingdem
(39,304 posts)for little marco