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KoKo

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13. Kagan was Adviser to John McCain's Campaign and Hillary Clinton's State Dept...
Tue Aug 12, 2014, 10:53 AM
Aug 2014
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kagan

Robert Kagan(born September 26, 1958 in Athens, Greece) is an American historian, author, columnist, and foreign policy commentator at the Brookings Institution. A co-founder of the Project for the New American Century,[1][2] Kagan is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.[3] He has been a foreign policy advisor to several U.S. Republican presidential candidates as well as to Hillary Clinton, when she was Secretary of State under President Obama.

Kagan is married to long-time career diplomat Victoria Nuland, who is currently serving as Assistant Secretary of European and Eurasian Affairs in the Barack Obama administration.[6] The couple has two children.

Kagan spent 13 years as a Senior Associate with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, before joining the Brookings Institution as a senior fellow in the Center on United States and Europe in September 2010.[9][10][11][12][13] During the 2008 presidential campaign he served as foreign policy advisor to John McCain, the Republican Party's nominee for President of the United States in the 2008 election.[14][15]

Kagan also serves on the State Department's Foreign Affairs Policy Board,[16] originally under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.[17] He is also a member of the board of directors for The Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI).[18]

Because of his association with PNAC and his early endorsement of the Iraq War, Kagan is widely considered a neoconservative foreign-policy theorist.[19][20] Kagan describes his foreign-policy views as "deeply rooted in American history and widely shared by Americans".[21]

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instead of the death of the repubs party we could get the death of the dems nt msongs Aug 2014 #1
Exactly! eom littlemissmartypants Aug 2014 #2
This was all carefully orchestrated. As the Republican Party becomes the big joke rhett o rick Aug 2014 #6
I see this as the underlying truth of the current situation. n/t PowerToThePeople Aug 2014 #14
Kagan's Wife Nuland in Ukraine handing out Cookies to Svoboda Party KoKo Aug 2014 #16
Yes, she was cavorting with neo nazis over there, helping to instigate the violence that has sabrina 1 Aug 2014 #23
What happens to us old lefties? Generic Other Aug 2014 #20
Horrific isn't the word I would use but it may be dire. The left has been neutralized. rhett o rick Aug 2014 #29
I feel like you have articulated the real issue we are facing Generic Other Aug 2014 #30
Excellent catch, WillyT. eom littlemissmartypants Aug 2014 #3
I shudder at the thought of her Presidency JaydenD Aug 2014 #4
Barf. octoberlib Aug 2014 #5
So, a neocon who is running away from the other neocons and has landed at a liberal think tank MADem Aug 2014 #7
Kagan..."Wolf in Sheeps Clothing" KoKo Aug 2014 #11
Well, what I see is a guy with his finger in the wind, looking to make a buck. MADem Aug 2014 #27
You Nailed that For sure... But, when do we move beyond this? KoKo Aug 2014 #31
What "finger of ridicule?" Geez! Could you be more unkind? MADem Aug 2014 #33
I hear Ya! KoKo Aug 2014 #34
Kagan is a neocon, or neolib, not that much difference. His wife was the one handing out cookies sabrina 1 Aug 2014 #25
Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Aug 2014 #8
Re-gain influence of foreign policy??? That's what's wrong now. Their (neo-con) influence has far kelliekat44 Aug 2014 #9
It's looking like Obama was a "Voice of Restraint" in the NeoCon Infexted DOS under Hillary... KoKo Aug 2014 #17
Kick !!! WillyT Aug 2014 #10
"Neocons like the historian Robert Kagan may be connecting with Hillary Clinton..." Sheepshank Aug 2014 #12
Kagan was Adviser to John McCain's Campaign and Hillary Clinton's State Dept... KoKo Aug 2014 #13
Has the Dem party moved to the right enough yet? L0oniX Aug 2014 #15
Far enough for the GOP to reinvent itself from the left leftstreet Aug 2014 #18
omg...When "Pigs Fly!" ...... KoKo Aug 2014 #19
This message was self-deleted by its author 1000words Aug 2014 #21
Wait! Wut? Generic Other Aug 2014 #22
You better believe it! zappaman Aug 2014 #24
Hillary Clinton will not be the next President of these United States and you Purveyor Aug 2014 #26
Kick. End the wars on humanity. grahamhgreen Aug 2014 #28
I not only support an Eliz Warren pres candidacy, AtomicKitten Aug 2014 #32
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