[Peace-discuss] The foreign policy establishment

[C. G. Estabrook]

[The Washington Post published today these lists of "the national 
security and foreign policy advisers to the leading presidential 
candidates from both parties."  The lists are as interchangeable as they 
are appalling, but they show why "the leading presidential candidates 
from both parties" are the leading candidates: they represent the same 
narrow policy positions. Those who don't -- Ron Paul, Dennis Kucinich, 
etc., need not apply.  --CGE]


DEMOCRATS

Hillary Clinton

Madeleine K. Albright, President Clinton’s secretary of state and now 
chairperson of the National Democratic Institute, foreign policy adviser

Samuel R. Berger, President Clinton’s national security adviser and now 
a principal at business consultancy Stonebridge, foreign policy adviser

Lt. Gen. Daniel William Christman, a former West Point superintendent 
and now senior vice president for international affairs at the U.S. 
Chamber of Commerce, foreign policy adviser

Gen. Wesley K. Clark, President Clinton’s Kosovo commander and now a 
Democratic fundraiser, endorsed Sen. Clinton Sept. 15

John H. Dalton, President Clinton’s Navy secretary and now president of 
the Financial Services Roundtable’s Housing Policy Council, veterans and 
military retirees for Hillary

Lee Feinstein, a deputy in President Clinton’s State Department, 
national security coordinator

Leslie H. Gelb; president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, 
a former New York Times correspondent and a former State and Defense 
Department official, informal adviser

Richard C. Holbrooke, President Clinton’s UN ambassador and broker of 
the Dayton Peace Accords (and now a Washington Post columnist), foreign 
policy adviser

Martin S. Indyk, President Clinton’s ambassador to Israel and now 
director of Brookings’s Saban Center for Middle East Policy, foreign 
policy adviser

Gen. John M. ("Jack") Keane, a former Army vice chief of staff who 
co-crafted the Iraq "surge" and is now a military analyst (sometimes for 
ABC news), military issues adviser

Lt. Gen. Claudia J. Kennedy, former deputy chief of staff for 
intelligence, veterans and military retirees for Hillary

Lt. Gen. Donald L. Kerrick, President Clinton’s deputy national security 
adviser, organizes meetings of retired officers

Vali Nasr, Naval Postgraduate School professor, Middle East adviser

Michael O'Hanlon, Brookings senior fellow and former Congressional 
Budget Office defense and foreign policy analyst, supporter

Rep. (and retired Vice Adm.) Joseph Sestak, veterans and military 
retirees for Hillary

Andrew Shapiro, Sen. Clinton’s Senate foreign policy staffer

Jeffrey H. Smith, former CIA general counsel and now a partner leading 
the public policy and government contracts group of law firm Arnold & 
Porter, national security adviser

Strobe Talbott, Brookings president, informal adviser

Togo D. West, President Clinton’s secretary for veterans affairs and 
former secretary of the Army, veterans and military retirees for Hillary

Former Amb. Joseph C. Wilson IV, the half of the Plamegate couple who 
criticized the administration for using questionable evidence to promote 
the Iraq war, endorsed Sen. Clinton July 16
Barack Obama

Former Amb. Jeffrey Bader, President Clinton’s National Security Council 
Asia specialist and now head of Brookings’s China center, national 
security adviser

Mark Brzezinski, President Clinton’s National Security Council Southeast 
Europe specialist and now a partner at law firm McGuireWoods, national 
security adviser

Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Carter’s national security adviser and 
now a Center for Strategic and International Studies counselor and 
trustee and frequent guest on PBS’s NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, foreign 
policy adviser

Richard A. Clarke, President Clinton and President George W. Bush’s 
counterterrorism czar and now head of Good Harbor Consulting and an ABC 
News contributor, sometimes Obama adviser

Gregory B. Craig, State Department director of policy planning under 
President Clinton and now a partner at law firm Williams & Connolly, 
foreign policy adviser

Roger W. Cressey, former National Security Council counterterrorism 
staffer and now Good Harbor Consulting president and NBC News 
consultant, has advised Obama but says not exclusive

Ivo H. Daalder, National Security Council director for European affairs 
during President Clinton’s administration and now a Brookings senior 
fellow, foreign policy adviser

Richard Danzig, President Clinton’s Navy secretary and now a Center for 
Strategic and International Analysis fellow, national security adviser

Philip H. Gordon, President Clinton’s National Security Council staffer 
for Europe and now a Brookings senior fellow, national security adviser

Maj. Gen. J. (Jonathan) Scott Gration, a 32-year Air Force veteran and 
now CEO of Africa anti-poverty effort Millennium Villages, national 
security adviser and surrogate

Lawrence J. Korb, assistant secretary of defense from 1981-1985 and now 
a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, informal foreign 
policy adviser

W. Anthony Lake, President Clinton’s national security adviser and now a 
professor at Georgetown’s school of foreign service, foreign policy adviser

James M. Ludes, former defense and foreign policy adviser to Sen. John 
Kerry, D-Mass., and now executive director of the American Security 
Project, national security adviser

Robert Malley, President Clinton’s Middle East envoy and now 
International Crisis Group’s Middle East and North Africa program 
director, national security adviser

Gen. Merrill A. ("Tony") McPeak, former Air Force chief of staff and now 
a business consultant, national security adviser

Denis McDonough, Center for American Progress senior fellow and former 
policy adviser to then-Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle, foreign 
policy coordinator

Samantha Power, Harvard-based human rights scholar and Pulitzer Prize 
winning writer, foreign policy adviser

Susan E. Rice, President Clinton’s Africa specialist at the State 
Department and National Security Council and now a Brookings senior 
fellow, foreign policy adviser

Bruce O. Riedel, former CIA officer and National Security Council 
staffer for Near East and Asian affairs and now a Brookings senior 
fellow, national security adviser

Dennis B. Ross, President Clinton’s Middle East negotiator and now a 
Washington Institute for Near East Policy fellow, Middle East adviser

Sarah Sewall, deputy assistant secretary of defense for peacekeeping and 
humanitarian assistance during President Clinton’s administration and 
now director of Harvard’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, national 
security adviser

Daniel B. Shapiro, National Security Council director for legislative 
affairs during President Clinton’s administration and now a lobbyist 
with Timmons & Company, Middle East adviser

Mona Sutphen, former aide to President Clinton’s National Security 
adviser Samuel R. Berger and to United Nations ambassador Bill 
Richardson and now managing director of business consultancy 
Stonebridge, national security adviser
John Edwards

Barry M. Blechman, President Carter’s assistant director of the U.S. 
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and founder and chairman of the 
Henry L. Stimson Center, military advisory group

Irving N. Blickstein, former assistant deputy chief of Naval operations 
and a RAND researcher, military advisory group

Derek Chollet, Edwards’s Senate foreign policy aide, chief national 
security adviser

Lt. Gen. Michael A. Hough, former Marine Corps deputy commandant for 
aviation, military advisory group

Gen. Paul J. Kern, former Army Materiel Command commander who directed 
the internal investigation into the abuses at Abu Ghraib and now a 
lobbyist with the Cohen Group, military advisory group

Gen. Lester "Les" Lyles, former commander Air Force Materiel Command and 
now an aerospace consultant, military advisory group

Gen. Gregory S. ("Speedy") Martin, former commander Air Force Materiel 
Command and now a consultant, military advisory group

Rear Adm. William J. McDaniel, former commanding officer of Portsmouth 
Naval Medical Center, military advisory group

Rear Adm. David R. Oliver Jr., former principal deputy under secretary 
for acquisition and technology and now CEO of aerospace and defense 
company EADS North America, military advisory group

Michael Signer, onetime aide to former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner, deputy 
policy director for foreign affairs and national security

Maj. Gen. Allen Youngman, former Kentucky adjutant general and now a 
defense lobbyist with American Business Development Group, military 
advisory group
REPUBLICANS

Rudolph Giuliani

Gerard Alexander, University of Virginia politics professor and American 
Enterprise Institute visiting scholar, European advisory board

Peter Beering, Indiana terrorism preparedness coordinator and principal 
with consulting firm Indianapolis Terrorism Response Group, homeland 
security advisory board

Peter Berkowitz; Hoover Institution senior fellow and George Mason Law 
School professor focusing on laws, ethics and politics; senior 
statecraft, human rights and freedom adviser

Robert C. Bonner, former U.S. Customs and Border Protection commissioner 
and now a partner with law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, chief homeland 
security adviser

David R. Cameron, Yale political science professor, European advisory board

Robert Conquest; Soviet-era historian and former adviser to British 
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and now a Hoover Institution research 
fellow; senior foreign policy advisory board

Lisa Curtis, former staffer to Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., on the Senate 
Foreign Relations Committee and now a Heritage foundation senior 
research fellow, senior South Asia adviser

Carlos Eire, Cuban activist and Yale renaissance studies professor, 
senior foreign policy advisory board

Joshua Filler, former director Department of Homeland Security Office of 
State and Local Government Coordination director and now a homeland 
security consultant, homeland security advisory board

Louis J. Freeh, former FBI director, homeland security advisory board 
chairman

Nile Gardner, Heritage Foundation senior research fellow and onetime 
foreign policy researcher for former British Prime Minister Margaret 
Thatcher, European advisory board

Stephen Haber, Hoover Institution senior fellow and Stanford history and 
political science professor, senior western hemisphere adviser

Charles Hill, former aide to Reagan-era secretary of state George P. 
Shultz and now a Hoover Institution research fellow, chief foreign 
policy adviser

Kim R. Holmes, President George W. Bush’s former assistant secretary of 
state for international organization affairs and now the Heritage 
Foundation vice president of foreign and defense policy studies, senior 
foreign policy adviser

Daniel Johnson, former Minnesota homeland security director, homeland 
security advisory board

Former Sen. Robert Kasten, R-Wisc., former chairman of the Senate 
Appropriations Committee Foreign Operations Subcommittee, senior foreign 
policy advisory board

Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., homeland security advisory board

Martin Kramer, former director of Tel Aviv University’s Moshe Dayan 
Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, senior Middle East adviser

Andrew B. Maner, former Department of Homeland Security chief financial 
officer and now a member of the board of directors at emergency 
management software provider Previstar, homeland security advisory board

John T. Odermatt, former commissioner of the New York City Office of 
Emergency Management and Citigroup’s corporate director of business 
continuity, homeland security advisory board

Norman Podhoretz, Hudson Institute adjunct fellow and former editor of 
Commentary magazine, senior foreign policy advisory board

David Pryce-Jones, novelist and essayist, senior foreign policy adviser

John Rabin, former program director of the Department of Homeland 
Security’s Lessons Learned Information Sharing and now a consultant, 
homeland security advisory board

Stephen Peter Rosen, President Reagan’s National Security Council 
staffer for political-military affairs and now a Harvard professor of 
national security and military affairs, senior defense adviser

Howard Safir, former New York City Police commissioner and now a crisis 
management consultant, homeland security advisory board

Richard J. Sheirer, former New York City emergency management 
commissioner and now a senior vice president with Giuliani Partners, 
homeland security advisory board

Seth Stodder, former Customs and Border Protection director of policy 
and planning and now a senior counsel and lobbyist with law firm Akin 
Gump, homeland security advisory board

C. Stewart Verdery Jr., former Department of Homeland Security assistant 
secretary for policy and planning and founder of lobbying firm Monument 
Policy Group, homeland security advisory board

Thomas Von Essen, former New York City Fire commissioner and now a 
senior vice president with Giuliani Partners, homeland security advisory 
board

Kenneth Weinstein, CEO Hudson Institute, foreign policy adviser

Joe Whitley, former Department of Homeland Security general counsel and 
now partner with law firm Alston & Bird, homeland security advisory board

S. Enders Wimbush, Hudson Institute director of future security 
strategies and former security consultant, senior public diplomacy adviser

Stephen Yates, former deputy assistant to Vice President Cheney for 
national security affairs and now a lobbyist and American Foreign Policy 
Council senior fellow, senior Asia adviser
John McCain

Richard Lee Armitage, President George W. Bush’s deputy secretary of 
state and an international business consultant and lobbyist, informal 
foreign policy adviser

Bernard Aronson, former assistant secretary of state for inter-American 
affairs and now a managing partner of private equity investment company 
ACON Investments, informal foreign policy adviser

William L. Ball III, secretary of the Navy during President Reagan’s 
administration and managing director of lobbying firm the Loeffler 
Group, informal national security adviser

Stephen E. Biegun, former national security aide to then-Sen. Bill 
Frist, R-Tenn., and now Ford Motors vice president of international 
government affairs, informal national security adviser

Max Boot, Council on Foreign Relations editor and former Wall Street 
Journal editorial editor, foreign policy adviser

Brig. Gen. Tom Bruner, Iowa veterans advisory committee

Eliot Cohen, served on the Pentagon’s policy planning staff and is now a 
strategic studies professor at Johns Hopkins, informal national security 
adviser

Lorne W. Craner, International Republican Institute president, informal 
foreign policy adviser

Lawrence S. Eagleburger, President George H.W. Bush’s secretary of state 
and a senior public policy adviser with law firm Baker Donelson, 
endorsed McCain April 10

Brig. Gen. Russ Eggers, Iowa veterans advisory committee

Maj. Gen. Merrill Evans, Iowa veterans advisory committee

Niall Ferguson, Harvard historian and Hoover Institution senior fellow, 
informal foreign policy adviser

Michael J. Green, former Asia adviser to President George W. Bush and 
now Japan chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, 
Asia policy adviser

Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr., President Reagan’s secretary of state, 
endorsed McCain April 10

Maj. Gen. Evan "Curly" Hultman, Iowa veterans advisory committee

Robert Kagan; senior associate with the Carnegie Endowment for 
International Peace, Washington Post columnist and former speechwriter 
for then-secretary of state George P. Shultz; informal foreign policy 
adviser

Brig. Gen. Robert Michael Kimmitt, current deputy Treasury secretary, 
informal national security adviser

Henry A. Kissinger, President Nixon and President Ford’s secretary of 
state who met McCain in Vietnam and is now a consultant, informal adviser

Col. Andrew F. Krepinevich, president of the Center for Strategic and 
Budgetary Assessments, informal national security adviser

William Kristol, The Weekly Standard editor, informal foreign policy adviser

Adm. Charles Larson, former superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy and 
now chairman of consulting firm ViaGlobal Group, informal national 
security adviser

Robert "Bud" McFarlane, President Reagan’s national security adviser and 
now a principal with Energy & Communications Solutions, energy and 
national security adviser

Brig. Gen. Warren "Bud" Nelson, Iowa veterans advisory committee

Brig. Gen. Eddie Newman, Iowa veterans advisory committee

Maj. Gen. John Peppers, Iowa veterans advisory committee

Maj. Ralph Peters, writer and retired Army officer, informal national 
security adviser

Brig. Gen. Maurice Phillips, Iowa veterans advisory committee

Gen. Colin L. Powell, President George W. Bush’s secretary of state, 
informal foreign policy adviser

James R. Schlesinger, President Nixon and President Ford’s secretary of 
defense, energy and national security adviser

Randy Scheunemann, national security aide to then-Senate Majority 
Leaders Bob Dole and Trent Lott and now a lobbyist, defense and foreign 
policy coordinator (for this cycle and 2000)

Gary Schmitt, former staff director of the Senate Intelligence Committee 
and now an American Enterprise Institute scholar, foreign policy adviser

Lt. Gen. Brent Scowcroft, national security adviser to Presidents Ford 
and George H.W. Bush and founder of business consultancy the Scowcroft 
Group, adviser

George P. Shultz, President Reagan’s secretary of state and a Hoover 
Institution Fellow, endorsed McCain April 10

Brig. Gen. W.L. "Bill" Wallace, Iowa veterans advisory committee

Maj. Gen. Gary Wattnem, Iowa veterans advisory committee

R. James Woolsey, former CIA director and now a vice president at 
consulting company Booz Allen Hamilton, energy and national security adviser
Mitt Romney

David Aufhauser, former Treasury Department general counsel and now 
general counsel of USB investment bank, counter-terrorism policy 
advisory group

Jorge L. Arrizurieta, lobbyist and major Republican donor, Latin 
American policy advisory group

Former Rep. Cass Ballenger, R-N.C., onetime chairman of House 
International Relations Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, Latin 
American policy advisory group

J. (Joseph) Cofer Black, former CIA and State Department 
counterterrorism official and now vice chairman Blackwater USA, senior 
adviser on counterterrorism and national security

Ted Brennan, former aide to then-Reps. Cass Ballenger, R-N.C. and Henry 
Hyde, R-Ill., Latin American policy advisory group

Lt. Gen. John H. ("Soup") Campbell, former vice director of Pentagon 
information systems and now a lobbyist for satellite communications, 
counter-terrorism policy advisory group

Alberto R. Cardenas, lobbyist and former chairman of the Florida 
Republican Party, Latin American policy advisory group

Robert Charles, former assistant secretary of state for international 
narcotics and law enforcement, Latin American policy advisory group

Samuel Cole, COO of BlueMountain Capital Management, counter-terrorism 
policy advisory group

Mark Falcoff, American Enterprise Institute Latin America scholar 
emeritus and onetime consultant to President Reagan’s Commission on 
Central America, Latin American policy advisory group

Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., ranking Republican on House Intelligence 
Committee, intelligence adviser

Kent Lucken, foreign service veteran now an international private banker 
with Citigroup, counter-terrorism policy advisory group

John McClurg, formerly of the FBI computer investigations and critical 
infrastructure threat assessment center and now vice president Honeywell 
Global Security, counter-terrorism policy advisory group

Larry Mefford, former FBI agent and counterterrorism official, 
counter-terrorism policy advisory group

Amb. Tibor Nagy, Jr., career foreign service officer with ambassadorial 
tours in Ethiopia and Guinea, counter-terrorism policy advisory group

Amb. Roger Francisco Noriega, former assistant secretary for Western 
hemisphere affairs under George W. Bush and now a lobbyist, Latin 
American policy advisory group

Mitchell B. Reiss, former state department policy planning director, 
foreign policy adviser

V. Manuel Rocha, career foreign service officer and former ambassador to 
Bolivia, Latin American policy advisory group

Steven Schrage, former State Department international law specialist, 
foreign policy and trade director

Dan Senor, former Iraq Coalition Provisional Authority spokesman and now 
a lobbyist and Fox News contributor, sometimes foreign policy adviser

Jose S. Sorzano, Latin America aide to President Reagan and chairman of 
corporate consultant Austin Group, Latin American policy advisory group

Larry Storrs, former Latin America specialist at the Congressional 
Research Service, Latin American policy advisory group

Caleb ("Cal") Temple, formerly with the Defense Intelligence Agency and 
now executive vice president of Total Intelligence Solutions, 
counter-terrorism policy advisory group

Former Rep. Vin Weber, R-Minn., lobbyist and chairman of the National 
Endowment for Democracy, policy chairman

Ed Worthington, FBI veteran, counter-terrorism policy advisory group

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