James Jones Has Resigned as Natl. Security Adviser

[Clio the Leo]

Donilon to Replace Jones as National Security Adviser
October 8, 2010, 9:59 AM
By DAVID E. SANGER

President Obama will announce on Friday that Gen. James Jones, the national security adviser, is resigning and will be replaced by Thomas E. Donilon, the principal deputy national security adviser, senior administration officials said.

General Jones’s departure had been long rumored, and he had previously indicated to his staff that he intended to leave by the end of the year. But the schedule was accelerated, and in recent weeks White House staff had been increasingly critical of General Jones for statements that he apparently made to Bob Woodward, the author of “Obama’s Wars,” an account of the internal decision making on policy Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Mr. Donilon began as young political operative for President Jimmy Carter and later was chief of staff for Secretary of State Warren Christopher in the Clinton administration. He has long operated in the area between politics and national security. He coached Mr. Obama on foreign policy for his debates during the 2008 presidential campaign.

As deputy national security adviser, he has urged what he calls a “re-balancing” of American foreign policy to rapidly disengage American forces in Iraq and to focus more on China, Iran and other emerging challenges. In the Afghanistan-Pakistan review, he argued that the United States could not engage in what he termed “endless war,” and has strongly defended Mr. Obama’s decision to declare that troops will begin leaving Afghanistan next summer.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/08/donilon-to-replace-jones-as-national-security-adviser/

[Clio the Leo]

1. added an article nt

[flpoljunkie]

2. Sounds like good news to me

[Historic NY]

3. Just can't take the repuke out of people..they don't work & play well with others.

[Pirate Smile]

4. Donilon's "re-balancing" sounds good to me.

[leveymg]

5. WaPo has a decent Donilon bio - make sure you click to the subsequent pages.

http://www.whorunsgov.com/Profiles/Thomas_Donilon

[flyarm]

6. you mean this James Jones? perhaps we all need to do some back ground research on Donilon..

as more of us should have looked into Jones! as people should have also looked into the ties of Obama and Kissinger..I know of no democrat who could or should ever tolerate Kissinger around their administration..or his buddies! Remember Kissinger has the nick name of the BUTCHER OF CAMBODIA..sometime a history book is a good thing to read ..so we don't see the same shit perpetrated on us and the world!

I have posted this since early in Obama's presidency.

People need to do their homework on these advisor's!

...click the link..it was in the CFR publication!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Remarks by National Security Adviser Jones at 45th Munich Conference on Security Policy

Published February 8, 2009




Speaker: James L. Jones


U.S. National Security Adviser Jones ( edit to add: new adviser hired by Obama!!!!) gave these remarks at the 45th Munich Conference on Security Policy at the Hotel Bayerischer Hof on

February 8, 2009.





"Thank you for that wonderful tribute to Henry Kissinger yesterday. Congratulations. As the most recent National Security Adviser of the United States, I take my daily orders from Dr. Kissinger, filtered down through General Brent Scowcroft and Sandy Berger, who is also here. We have a chain of command in the National Security Council that exists today.




Source: http://www.cfr.org/publication/18515/remar ... ...



xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Cold warrior Henry Kissinger woos Russia for Barack Obama

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/...

Mr Obama apparently chose Mr Kissinger for his consummate diplomatic skills and his popularity in Moscow, an affection earned by his open acknowledgment of Russia's international resurgence.
Despite his pariah status with many Left-wingers in Mr Obama's Democratic Party, the president forged relations with Mr Kissinger during his campaign.

The compliment was returned when the 85-year-old veteran of the Nixon and Ford administrations said last month that the young president was in a position to create a "new world order" by shifting US foreign policy away from the hostile stance of the Bush administration.

He publicly supported Mr Obama's notion of unconditional talks with Iran, though not at the presidential level.

Further demonstrating his willingness to work with his opponents on foreign policy issues, Mr Obama turned to two veteran Republicans steeped in Cold War experience to press home his plans.

Shortly after Mr Kissinger's trip, Richard Lugar, a Republican senator from Indiana who has worked on nuclear disarmament issues for 30 years, also visited Moscow. George Schultz, another former secretary of state, has also played a vital role.

[AtomicKitten]

7. Gates on Donilon.

then: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/10/08/130430124/woodward-gates-thinks-donilon-a-disaster

now: http://wvgazette.com/News/politico/201010080519

I like that Gates didn't like Donilon before. That tells me a lot.

[Jennicut]

8. He has strong ties to Biden and his brother Mike is Counselor to the VP.

I think it will be a good change.

[Jim Sagle]

9. Ahh yess...a third world-renowned foreign policy clown takes his moth-eaten act outta town.

He'll be telling joooooo jokes on his own dime from now on. ;)