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washingtonindependent.com - 11/9/2008
Obama’s Pentagon-in-Waiting
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The rumor started to spread last week. if Sen. Barack Obama won the presidential election, Michele Flournoy would resign from the Center for a New American Security Thursday following the election. Friday at the latest. It’s not difficult to understand why the talk circulated. Flournoy boasts an ...
PNAC: Palin’s Pentagon In Waiting?
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org - 11/10/2008
PNAC: Palin’s Pentagon In Waiting?
— wonkroom.thinkprogress.org — It looks like Bill Kristol may be making good on his threat to revive the Project for... the New American Century. Since May, visitors to PNAC’s website were informed that “ this account has been suspended ,” but now the website is ... (more) PNAC: Palin’s Pentagon In Waiting?

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thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com - 11/7/2008
Waiting for Nebraska
— thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com — Forgive Douglas County for holding up a chance at history. It has been a bit overwhelmed by... the rush of voters in the last week. (more) Waiting for Nebraska

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The Obamagon
Jules Crittenden — ... Washington Independent  on counterinsurgency-heavy Center for a New American Strategy as a feeder pool for the Obama administration’s Pentagon. via ...

Agency Review Stuff
Matthew Yglesias — ... at the Department of Treasury will be led by Josh Gotbaum and Michael Warren about whom I know nothing, the State team will be led by Tom Donilon (author of a transition-relevant Foreign Affairs article) and Wendy Sherman (sound views, worked closely with Madeleine Albright and understands the department), and the Defense team by John White (expertise in defense organization issues, Kennedy School Middle East Initiative) and Michèle Flournoy (who’s already being talked about as America’s first woman defense secretary). Beyond ...

Staffing Defense
Ben Smith's Blog — ... They include William Lynn at the top deputy job, he's a longtime Clinton defense official and former Kennedy staffer. Michèle Flournoy, who will be Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, is a leading Democratic defense policy wonk who created and runs the Center for a New American Security, a hub of thinking about counterinsurgency. ...

Tom Ricks, Imperialist And Loving It
Newshoggers.com — ... By Cernig Tom Ricks, stenographer to generals and much-lauded fellow of the Obama administration's "counterinsurgency HQ" at the Center for a New American Security, finally comes out and says it: the US has accepted the White Man's Burden from previous colonial empires and will be meddling in the Middle East for centuries, "following in the footsteps of Alexander the Great, the Romans and the British". For thousands of years, it has been the fate of the West's great powers to become involved in the region's politics. [as if ...

Tom Ricks, Imperialist And Loving It
Crooks and Liars — Tom Ricks, hagiographer to generals and much-lauded fellow of the Obama administration's "counterinsurgency HQ" at the Center for a New American Security, finally comes out and says it: the US has accepted the White Man's Burden from previous colonial empires and will be meddling in the Middle East for centuries, "following in the footsteps of Alexander the Great, the Romans and the British". For thousands of years, it has been the fate of the West's great powers to become involved in the region's politics. [as if they had ...

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