Richardcyoung.com

The Online Home of Author and Investor, Dick Young

  • Home
  • Debbie Young
  • Jimmy Buffett
  • Key West
  • Your Survival Guy
  • How We Are Different
  • Paris
  • About Us
    • Foundation Principles
    • Contributors
  • Investing
    • You’ve Read The Last Issue of Intelligence Report, Now What?
  • The Great Reset
  • The Swiss Way
  • My Rifles
  • Dividends and Compounding
  • Your Security
  • Dick Young
  • Dick’s R&B Top 100
  • Liberty & Freedom Map
  • Bank Credit & Money
  • Your Survival Guy’s Super States
  • NNT & Cholesterol
  • Your Health
  • Ron Paul
  • US Treasury Yield Curve: My Favorite Investor Tool
  • Anti-Gun Control
  • Anti-Digital Currency
  • Joel Salatin and Alfie Oakes
  • World Gold Mine Production
  • Fidelity and Vanguard Since 1971

War Dogs Show Their Teeth

April 20, 2015 By Richard C. Young

Here nationalreview.com headlines: “Meet Jeb Bush’s National Security Advisor.”

The advisor in question happens to be John Noonan. NR notes that Noonan has been a contributor to The Weekly Standard (the mouth piece for the neocon faction):

Noonan’s hire is earning praise from the hawkish wing of the GOP and assuaging some early concerns among that crowd that Bush’s own views might resemble his father’s more than his brother’s.

I am also aware that neocon #1 Paul Wolfowitz has been added to the Bush foreign policy team. I cannot imagine a more unpleasant team addition.

Nationalreview.com wraps it up neatly by advising, “Noonan went on to serve as a policy advisor for Foreign Policy Initiative-a nonprofit organization whose board includes prominent thinkers associated with the neoconservative movement, including Robert Kagan, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Bill Kristol, the founder and editor of the Weekly Standard.”

My focus regarding foreign policy and national security is based on a foundation of research provided by the Cato Institute and its vice president for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, Chris Preble. When I ran the Noonan name past Chris this morning, his review was, shall we say, not brimming with enthusiasm: “On foreign policy, Jeb Bush could have learned from the mistakes of the past, and assembled a group of advisors who were so successful during his father’s administration. Instead, he has chosen to surround himself with many of the same people who urged his brother to invade Iraq and double down in 2007.”

I followed up with check in at Niskanen center, a new Libertarian Washington think tank organized by former Cato Institute senior operative Jerry Taylor. Niskanen’s Foreign and Defense Policy Matt Fay responded: “The selection of John Noonan shows that the Bush camp has learned nothing from the past decade and a half. Jeb had an opportunity to select someone like Bridge Colby to run his national security team. Colby may be a hawk on a number of issues, but he’s as smart and reasonable a foreign policy thinker you’ll find in DC. Choosing Noonan, Bush confirmed that the neoconservative viewpoint remains ascendant even after the debacle that was his brother’s foreign policy.”

When considering the best course for American foreign policy and national security, one of my favorite strategists is former CIA bin Laden unit chief Michael Scheuer. In Seeking America’s Survival, I outline some prototypical Scheuer thinking. A neocon slant it has not.

If you’re willing to fight for Main Street America, click here to sign up for my free weekly email.

Related Posts

  • War Dogs against Trump
  • War Dogs Barking
  • Unconstitutional War Dogs
  • Author
  • Recent Posts
Richard C. Young
Richard C. Young
Richard C. Young is the editor of Young's World Money Forecast, and a contributing editor to both Richardcyoung.com and Youngresearch.com.
Richard C. Young
Latest posts by Richard C. Young (see all)
  • “The Goal Is to Break Down the Individual” - September 29, 2023
  • Blackwater Founder Erik Prince a Hillsdale College Graduate - September 29, 2023
  • “The Economy Is Buried Under Trillions in Debt” - September 29, 2023

Dick Young’s Must Reads

  • Victor Davis Hanson: How to Bust DC’s Stronghold
  • Yes, Your Children Are Listening to You
  • Your Best State on Guns, Plus the 8th Wonder of the World
  • Stunned Democrats Against “Defund Police”
  • BEYOND RUSSIA: America Strengthens India Ties to Counter China
  • TROJAN HORSE: “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” is Critical Race Theory in Disguise
  • Gstaad and the Swiss Way
  • You May Be Surprised by America’s “Least Woke City”
  • How Can You Maximize Natural Immunity to Viruses?
  • Who Will Pay the Price for LEDs?

Compensation was paid to utilize rankings. Click here to read full disclosure.

RSS Youngresearch.com

  • Investing Habits of the Fairly Wealthy: #10 Powerball
  • “Then One Day the Grandfather was Gone”
  • India Choose to Promote Coastal Trade. The US Should Too
  • “No Way I’m Spending That Much on Those”
  • The War Machine’s Manpower Problem
  • Profits Becoming Elusive in China
  • “You Didn’t Eat That Again, Did You?”
  • Your Survival Guy Fishing with Dolphins
  • The Single Worst Market Timing Event in History
  • Government Intervention Begets More Intervention

RSS Yoursurvivalguy.com

  • Investing Habits of the Fairly Wealthy: #10 Powerball
  • Your Survival Guy: “Life on Main Street Hasn’t Been This Hard in a While”
  • Your Retirement Life: Striped Bass Fishing off Block Island
  • “Then One Day the Grandfather was Gone”
  • How Joe Biden Raised Oil Prices
  • Is the Philadelphia Looting Spree the Wake-up Call America Needs?
  • “No Way I’m Spending That Much on Those”
  • What Trade Policy Serves America’s National Interest Best?
  • California Wants to Make the 2nd Amendment Unaffordable
  • “You Didn’t Eat That Again, Did You?”

US Treasury Yield Curve: My Favorite Investor Tool

Five Year Treasury Yield

Bidenomics: Distrust of Public Officials and Institutions

Investing Habits of the Fairly Wealthy: #10 Powerball

“The Goal Is to Break Down the Individual”

Blackwater Founder Erik Prince a Hillsdale College Graduate

Copyright © 2023 | Terms & Conditions | About Us | Dick Young | Archives