25-05-2016, 01:52 PM
CNAS (think tank sponsor of the report mentioned in the OP) looks like a Clinton-esque adoption of the PNAC strategy of Bush-era Republican advisors:
a. Make a think tank.
b. Staff it with your people.
c. Write a report.
d. Cite the report lavishly in friendly press outlets.
e. "Justify" your policies with the report.
In this case, CNAS was created by Michele Flournoy, a Bill Clinton appointee to the DOD (also Obama's Undersecretary for Defense Policy) and Kurt Campbell, Obama's Assistant Secretary of State (Asia). The report itself was co-chaired by Robert Kagan (you may remember him as a co-founder of PNAC) and James Rubin, Bill Clinton's Asst. Secretary of State (Public Affairs).
As it happens, Kagan is a WaPo columnist. James Rubin is married to Christine Amanpour, so I expect CNN to cite the report soon, if it hasn't already, and his sister works at the New York Times. According to Wikipedia:
"CNAS experts have been quoted in numerous national media outlets, including but not limited to Foreign Policy,[SUP][11][/SUP] The New York Times,[SUP][12][/SUP] The Washington Post,[SUP][13][/SUP] The Wall Street Journal,[SUP][14][/SUP] The National Interest,[SUP][15][/SUP] The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,[SUP][16][/SUP] C-SPAN,[SUP][17][/SUP] NBC,[SUP][18][/SUP] NPR,[SUP][19][/SUP] CNN,[SUP][20][/SUP] and PBS.[SUP][21][/SUP]"
The 20 page report can be downloaded (.pdf) here: http://www.cnas.org/extending-American-p...0WYDKTmqpp. I expect it to be a report justifying the Obama-Hilary approach to foreign policy, and likely, suggestive of the idea that only Hilary can chart a course through these waters. However, since Kagan is involved, I will be studying the report carefully to see if it contains hints of the same sort of near-prescient vision of future mass disaster (9/11) that the PNAC report did.
a. Make a think tank.
b. Staff it with your people.
c. Write a report.
d. Cite the report lavishly in friendly press outlets.
e. "Justify" your policies with the report.
In this case, CNAS was created by Michele Flournoy, a Bill Clinton appointee to the DOD (also Obama's Undersecretary for Defense Policy) and Kurt Campbell, Obama's Assistant Secretary of State (Asia). The report itself was co-chaired by Robert Kagan (you may remember him as a co-founder of PNAC) and James Rubin, Bill Clinton's Asst. Secretary of State (Public Affairs).
As it happens, Kagan is a WaPo columnist. James Rubin is married to Christine Amanpour, so I expect CNN to cite the report soon, if it hasn't already, and his sister works at the New York Times. According to Wikipedia:
"CNAS experts have been quoted in numerous national media outlets, including but not limited to Foreign Policy,[SUP][11][/SUP] The New York Times,[SUP][12][/SUP] The Washington Post,[SUP][13][/SUP] The Wall Street Journal,[SUP][14][/SUP] The National Interest,[SUP][15][/SUP] The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,[SUP][16][/SUP] C-SPAN,[SUP][17][/SUP] NBC,[SUP][18][/SUP] NPR,[SUP][19][/SUP] CNN,[SUP][20][/SUP] and PBS.[SUP][21][/SUP]"
The 20 page report can be downloaded (.pdf) here: http://www.cnas.org/extending-American-p...0WYDKTmqpp. I expect it to be a report justifying the Obama-Hilary approach to foreign policy, and likely, suggestive of the idea that only Hilary can chart a course through these waters. However, since Kagan is involved, I will be studying the report carefully to see if it contains hints of the same sort of near-prescient vision of future mass disaster (9/11) that the PNAC report did.
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