{"id":35627,"date":"2020-08-06T08:15:09","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T16:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=35627"},"modified":"2020-08-06T08:15:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T16:15:09","slug":"dnc-delegates-biden-team-a-horror-show-of-disastrous-foreign-interventionism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/06\/dnc-delegates-biden-team-a-horror-show-of-disastrous-foreign-interventionism\/","title":{"rendered":"DNC Delegates: Biden Team ‘A Horror Show’ of ‘Disastrous’ Foreign Interventionism"},"content":{"rendered":"

From The American Conservative<\/a>:<\/i><\/p>\n

Former National Security Advisor Susan Rice is rumored to be near the top of Joe Biden\u2019s short list for vice presidential candidates.<\/a> A new letter attacking Rice’s \u201cpoor judgment\u201d is being widely circulated among delegates to the Democratic National Convention, calling Biden\u2019s inner circle of foreign policy advisors a \u201chorror show\u201d with track records supporting \u201cdisastrous\u201d U.S. military interventions. The letter has<\/b>already received more than 275 signatures from delegates, almost all of whom had been pledged to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).<\/p>\n

The letter highlights Biden\u2019s long-time chief aide on foreign affairs Antony Blinken as well as several other prominent former members of the Obama Administration who would likely hold cabinet-level appointments in a Biden administration, HuffPost reports<\/a>. Blinken co-founded a company called WestExec Advisors<\/a>, that aided a Pentagon effort to enhance drone warfare<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The presumptive Democratic nominee is relying on former Obama aides and Libya war cheerleaders Samantha Power and Jake Sullivan, as well as a bevy of other military-industrial complex beneficiaries, including former Defense Department official Mich\u00e8le Flournoy, who worked several years for the Boston Consulting Group, while the firm accrued multi-million dollar contracts with the military, and Avril Haines, a former CIA deputy director reviled on the left<\/a> for her role in making redactions to a report on President George W. Bush\u2019s use of torture and her assistance in President Barack Obama\u2019s extra judicial drone strikes.<\/p>\n

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From The American Conservative: Former National Security Advisor Susan Rice is rumored to be near the top of Joe Biden\u2019s short list for vice presidential candidates. A new letter attacking Rice’s \u201cpoor judgment\u201d is being widely circulated among delegates to the Democratic National Convention, calling Biden\u2019s inner circle of foreign policy advisors a \u201chorror show\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":470,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-35627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":"The letter attacks former national security advisor Susan Rice for her 'poor judgment' as well as several other prominent Biden advisors"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/470"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35627"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35630,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35627\/revisions\/35630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35627"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=35627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}