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#23802000 at 2025-11-02 15:00:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #29001: Mathematically impossible or every detail planned? Edition
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Introduction
Sen. Barack Obama's (D-IL) foreign policy agenda has emphasized multilateralismand reinvigorated diplomacy to advance U.S. interests. He has pledged to take steps to end the war in Iraq soon after taking office, to negotiate with the leadership of U.S. adversaries like Iran and Cuba, and to revamp the U.S. approach to free trade to bolster labor and environmental protections. Obama has attracted as advisers a number of top foreign policy experts who served under President Bill Clinton. Many of Obama's top advisers were opposed to the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, although a number of prominent Democrats, including Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY), supported the action at the time. Obama's advisers generally appear to agree with his belief that it is "important for the United States not just to talk to its friends but also to talk to its enemies."
A New Foreign Policy Vision
Obama was elected to the Senate in 2005 and serves on the Foreign Relations Committee. Prior to that, his professional experience was primarily confined to Illinois, where he served as a state legislator representing a Chicago district, and before that, a community activist. He has cited his personal background-his Kenyan-born father and a youth spent in Indonesia-as crucial to the development of his world view (AFP). Like other presidential campaigns, Obama's draws on a long list of advisers on foreign policy matters. The New York Times reported in July 2008 that the list swelled to more than three hundred experts after Sen. Clinton suspended her candidacy and some chief advisers joined Obama's team.
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"This is a team that's very reflective of Obama, who has made it pretty clear in his speeches and statements during the campaign that he believes that diplomacy has been undervalued over the past few years and that the United States shouldn't fear to negotiate," says Derek Chollet, a senior fellow at the Center for New American Security who advised John Edwards' presidential campaign.
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If Obama wins the general election in November, his foreign policy and economic agendas will surely break with the legacies of the Bush administration, experts say. "Whether it's our approach to torture, or climate change, or how we're dealing with Iran, to Iraq, to the Middle East peace process you're going to see significant changes," says Chollet, who is not connected to the Obama campaign. Obama advocates a market-based cap-and-trade system to reduce carbon emissions, and has said the United States should invest $150 billion over ten years to advance clean-energy technology. Obama has also been an outspoken critic of the Iraq war, which he opposed from its outset in 2002. He has said he will withdraw troops from Iraq and refocus U.S. military efforts against al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Obama's leading national security advisers include:
Denis McDonough, recently a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, is the national security coordinator for Obama's campaign. McDonough was foreign policy adviser to former Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle.
McDonough has been outspoken on energy and environmental policy. In June 2007, McDonough urged the Group of Eight (G8) to take action to combat climate change, and warned that current levels of development assistance are "woefully insufficient" to help underdeveloped nations deal with climate change. McDonough has also said that the United States should do more to "promote the development of our domestic clean energy sector industry." McDonough said on a Brookings Institution panel in May 2007 that it is "far past time" for the United States to institute a cap-and-trade system mandating "very aggressive reductions" (PDF) in greenhouse gases, with the goal of an 80 percent reduction over 1990 levels by 2050.
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#9882695 at 2020-07-07 11:13:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12648: Quiet Collectors Keep'n Bredz Qewl Edition
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Aspen Strategy Group members in 2009:
* Joesph S. Nye, Jr. - (Group Chairmen)
* Brent Scowcroft - (Group Chairmen)
* Kurt M. Campbell - Director
* Willow Darsie - Deputy Director
* Madeleine Albright
* Richard Armitage
* Zoe Baird
* Stephen Biegun
* Lael Brainard
Ashton B. Carter
Eliot A. Cohen
Susan Collins
Richard Danzig
John M. Deutch
Thomas E. Donilon
Richard A. Falkenrath
Dianne Feinstein
Michele A. Flournoy
Richard Haass
Chuck Hagel
Jane Harman
Robert Kagan
Nicholas D. Kristof
Richard G. Lugar
Jane Holl Lute
Sylvia Mathews
Sam Nunn
Thomas O'Gara
William J. Perry (Sec Def for Clinton)
Jack Reed
Mitchell Reiss
Susan Rice (Hiya girl!)
Dennis Ross
David Sanger
Wendy Sherman
Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall
Anne-Marie Slaughter
James B. Steinberg
Marin Strmecki
Strobe Talbott
Christopher Williams
Fareed Zakaria
#2192294 at 2018-07-17 23:26:22 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #2764: Dark to Light Edition
Four members of Trump's Homeland Security council step down to protest 'morally repugnant' family separation
The Trump administration's immigration policies and the "morally repugnant" practice of separating children from accompanying adults has prompted four people on the Homeland Security advisory council to step down, a new report said.
Former Clinton-era Secretary of the Navy Richard Danzig, former Democratic congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman, former DHS deputy attorney counsel in the Obama administration David Martin, and former Obama-era Director of the National Counterterrorism Center Matthew Olsen wrote in a letter Monday to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen that they were resigning.
They said the agency did not confer with the advisory council prior to executing a zero tolerance policy to prosecute all illegal immigrants, which led to the separation children from the adults who crossed with them into the U.S. "Were we consulted, we would have observed that routinely taking children from migrant parents was morally repugnant, counter-productive and ill-considered," they wrote, according to the Washington Post. "We cannot tolerate association with the immigration policies of this administration, nor the illusion that we are consulted on these matters."
Last month, Trump signed an executive order to prevent the splitting up of apprehended immigrant families. The government must reunite separated children between the ages of 5 and 17 with their families later this month, under a court order. Martin and Holtzman sent additional letters to Nielsen in which they condemned other aspects of the administration's immigration policies. This included the administration's attempt to secure a border wall. "These actions have fueled polarization, alienated state and local governments, and moved us much further from a sustainable, effective, and strategically sensible immigration enforcement program," Martin wrote. Holtzman also claimed that Trump's presidency has turned DHS "into an agency that is making war on immigrants and refugees."
The Homeland Security secretary selects advisory council members to fill two-year terms. The members meet periodically and participate in research and recommendations for the agency.
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