Not terribly surprising, but I have it from a reliable source that Elliott Abrams, currently Deputy National Security Adviser for Global Democracy Strategy who also heads the NSC’s Near East office, is regularly briefing the McCain campaign — Randy Scheunemann appears to be the main contact — and has told friends and colleagues that he is confident that he will get a top post in a McCain administration. Now, assuming Abrams is not talking through his hat, I very much doubt that a Democratic-majority Senate would confirm Abrams, who pleaded guilty to essentially lying to Congress during the Iran-Contra affair, to any position that required confirmation (especially as long as Chris Dodd, who clashed frequently and bitterly with Abrams when the latter served as Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs under Reagan, remains alive). That would leave his current abode — the NSC — as his most likely destination. But he is already a deputy national security adviser. Does that mean that he thinks he will be THE Deputy National Security Adviser — in charge of the day-to-day operations of the NSC — or even THE National Security Adviser in the McCain White House?
Abrams is no fool, and his political instincts have always been very sharp, so, unless my informant is mistaken, I assume he has reason to feel confident about his future under McCain. If so, there can remain really very little doubt that McCain’s foreign policy will be thoroughly neo-conservative and very aggressive; a replay of Bush’s first term. After all, it was Abrams, backed by Cheney, who drove the isolation policy against Hamas (so much for democracy promotion!); it was Abrams who suggested to Israeli leaders that they extend the 2006 war with Hezbollah to Syria; it was Abrams who, for all practical purposes, undermined Rice’s efforts to get a Israel-Palestine framework agreement before Bush leaves office. Among many other things.
Bush, McCain. McCain, Bush. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Can you imagine a more insensate bunch of bozos than the American voters?
doesn’t help that the media is terrified to say “israel”
Got that right, Lester.
And how much you want to bet Israel will get Congress to pass a gargantuan new “aid” package for the Holy State, designed to guarantee that Israel will not lose a penny as a result of the US financial meltdown?
In fact, for all we know, Congress may have already quietly passed such a bill. We certainly wouldn’t have heard about it from our “free” news media, would we?
You can be sure that if McInsane wins, Elliott Abrams–this ex-con, Zionist chickenhawk warmonger–will crawl out from beneath his slime-covered rock to serve the Mad Bomber.
Yes, the boys over in Tel Aviv will always get what they want from Uncle Chump, no matter that America’s economy is running on empty.
that’s pretty scary
Mr. Big Stick: CIA/NED/AID Latin America Point Man John McCain
But…don’t you understand? Haven’t you heard the news?…*Everything* is going to be alright now that Sarah Palin is the VP candidate! So do your duty and vote Republican, dammit!
I think that Obama has now weathered the storm, that is the coming together of ReichsChurch “Christians” and the McCain campaign because of the Palin selection. I sense that he – Obama – is now likely to win the election, if for no other reason than the damnable economic crisis we’re having to endure. With Obama as President, Elliott Abrams will not be a factor, although that is not to say that there will not be a neo-con strangle-hold on the throat of this poseur. Already these influences have asserted themselves. Come what may, one might expect only cosmetic differences between a McCain and an Obama Administration. Only the players, not the policy ambience, will be different.
You might think that all the flak and statistical analysis that his American elections, would result in a balanced candided emerging. Sadly history says no. The financial markets are the key, unfortunety nobody known wich door to open unless you are in the loop and thats not any government.