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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumMeet Hillary's foreign policy advisor. Michele Flournoy
She is CEO of a liberal hawkish think tank Center for a New American Security (CNAS), a liberal-hawk think tank that she cofounded with Kurt Campbell in 2007. CNAS is widely viewed as having had significant influence on the Obama administrations defense policies, particularly with respect to counterinsurgency warfare.
Foreign policy hawks have frequently commented on Flournoys militarist tendencies. For instance, in a September 2009 commentary on U.S. policy in Afghanistan, Tom Donnelly of the American Enterprise Institute wrote, Undersecretary of defense Michele Flournoy is the dictionary definition of a hawkish Democrat"
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Foreign policy hawks have frequently commented on Flournoys militarist tendencies. For instance, in a September 2009 commentary on U.S. policy in Afghanistan, Tom Donnelly of the American Enterprise Institute wrote, Undersecretary of defense Michele Flournoy is the dictionary definition of a hawkish Democrat"
If Hillary gets elected, this is most likely the person she will be listening to re: global affairs.
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Meet Hillary's foreign policy advisor. Michele Flournoy (Original Post)
dixiegrrrrl
Apr 2016
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whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)1. "Liberal-Hawk"?!?
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)4. Liberal "hawk-ish" is the term they used.
There seems to be a popular use of of the "conservative-liberal" dichotomy, the "liberal" part being what we call 3rd way.
those terms are pretty fluid, as we have found out.
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)2. K&R for exposure. Thanks for posting... eom
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)3. But has she ever ducked sniper fire in Bosnia?
Her potential new boss certainly has.
Avalon Sparks
(2,566 posts)5. More WAR HAWKING