people who worked on foreign policy under the george w. bush administration. 15 of the 22. a half dozen of them are former members of the project for the new american century. remember them? proj project for the new american century was a think tank arguing for an american invasion of iraq in the 1990s. again, for them, like for bill clinton the name sort of made sense. since they started before the end of the last century. talking about a new american century. the group did survive, though, for a hot minute into the 2000s. nine days after 9/11 they wrote to president bush saying saddam hussein may have helped in the 9/11 attacks and if he didn t help, counterterrorism strategy after 9/11 that didn t include invading iraq, will, quote, will constitute an early and perhaps decisive surrender. the project for the new american century has folded now. for obvious reasons. their website is still up, though. it s like a time capsule of i was wrong incorporated.
would convene a group to study the issue. i ll order a full review of our transition to the afghan military. to secure that nation s sovereignty from the tyranny of the taliban. i ll speak with our generals in the field and receive the best recommendations of our military commanders. on the war s ten-year anniversary, that is his big idea on afghanistan. i will look into it. mostly the big mitt romney next republican president vision rollout this week was about making this big speech today and making the announcement of his very long list of foreign policy advisers. which actually explains why he was talking about a new american century 89 years before it s due. in an american century, america leads the free world and the free world leads the entire world. the 21st century can and must be an american century. of the 22 people who mitt romney has named as his foreign policy advisers, 15 of them are
you can t work on proliferation anymore. it is the one thing you have not only discredited yourself but by your actions you basically discredited our entire country. you can work on anything you want. you can become a color by numbers genius. you can invent a new form of recycling container, write amazing sci-fi novels, be a stay at home dad but can t work on the weapons of mass destruction thing anymore. if you re the uranium from africa guy. that s the one thing you can not do. mitt romney named the uranium from africa guy co-chair of his counterproliferation working group. the uranium from africa guy is going to be mitt romney s uranium from africa guy. this would be like hiring somebody from black water saying forward looking foreign policy. oh, wait, cofer black who left in the middle of the bush presidency to become an executive at black water has been named a mitt romney foreign policy adviser. mitt romney picked up dan senor
saddam did 9/11 stuff. seriously, visit it. it s a time travel back to the worst losing arguments in foreign policy in the last decade. having been so discredited by the iraq war disaster, the project for the new american century people closed up shop. they did basically re-open under a different name. a rather obscure name, foreign policy initiative. which i think not by accident is much less googleable than their old name. with the greatest foreign policy error in american history hung around their necks, with the neocon fantasy a punch line now, mitt romney as a presidential candidate decided to embrace them. romney picked six new american century guys and three of the four board members of the new group that replaced it to be his advisers on foreign policy. he s essentially set on reconstituting the major parts of the george w. bush foreign policy apparatus. he s even picked the ones you would think could really never