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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (10084)	12/28/1999 1:53:00 PM
From: Red Heeler	Respond to of 769670

Article from The New American, December 20, 1999: George's CFR "Shadow Cabinet" In his November 19th address at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, GOP presidential nominee-in-waiting George W. Bush sketched out a vision of a "distinctly American internationalism" that would differ only in matters of irrelevant nuance from Bill Clinton's version of "internationalism." While Bush's address scored points off of the Clinton administration's coddling of Russia and Red China, his speechwriters were careful to follow the establishment's formula. Bush expressed support for the "Nunn-Lugar program," through which the U.S. taxpayer is milked for subsidies to Russian weapons programs in the name of "defense conversion." Contradicting the warnings of Washington and Jefferson regarding the dangers of entangling alliances, Bush insisted that "alliances are not just for crises - summoned into action when the fire bell sounds," and pledged to strengthen "the alliances that sustain our influence in Europe and East Asia and the Middle East." Most tellingly, he insisted that "international organizations can serve the cause of peace." While maintaining that "I will never place U.S. troops under UN command," Bush embraced a joint U.S.-UN role in "peacekeeping and humanitarian efforts." "If I am president, America will pay its [UN] dues," declared Bush, ignoring the fact that Congress, not the President, controls the purse strings - a very Clintonesque touch. Bush's speech was doubtless observed with pride by his foreign policy tutors, a group of nominally Republican foreign policy "experts" assembled by former Secretary of State George Shultz. "It's an unusual operation in American politics: An almost parliamentary-style 'shadow cabinet' stocked with the best and brightest of a GOP establishment that yearns to reclaim power by educating the son of a man many of them worked for," commented the November 22nd issue of Newsweek Magazine. Actually, Bush's tutors represent the same "bi-partisan establishment" that has dominated the executive branch for decades. Of the five tutors listed by Newsweek - defense expert Richard Armitage, foreign policy consultant George Shultz, Russian affairs scholar Condolezza Rice, Asian affairs expert Paul Wolfowitz, and arms control maven Richard Perle - all but Armitage are members of the Council on Foreign Relations.