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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe neocon puppet master behind Romney/Ryan
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/16/opinion/sunday/dowd-neocons-slither-back.htmlSeptember 15, 2012
Neocons Slither Back
By MAUREEN DOWD
...Ryan was moving his mouth, but the voice was the neocon puppet master Dan Senor. The hawkish Romney adviser has been secunded to manage the running mate and graft a Manichaean worldview onto the foreign affairs neophyte...
As the spokesman for Paul Bremer during the Iraq occupation, Senor helped perpetrate one of the biggest foreign policy bungles in American history. The clueless desert viceroys summarily disbanded the Iraqi Army, forced de-Baathification, stood frozen in denial as thugs looted ministries and museums, deluded themselves about the growing insurgency, and misled reporters with their Panglossian scenarios of progress...
Before he played ventriloquist to Ryan, Senor did the same for Romney, ratcheting up the candidates irresponsible bellicosity on the Middle East. Senor was the key adviser on Romneys disastrous trip to Israel in July, when Mittens infuriated the Palestinians by making a chuckleheaded claim about their culture.
Senor got out over his skis before Romneys speech in Jerusalem, telling reporters that Mitt would say he respected Israels right to make a pre-emptive, unilateral attack on Irans nuclear facilities. ...
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The neocon puppet master behind Romney/Ryan (Original Post)
jsr
Sep 2012
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cali
(114,904 posts)1. I don't think so.
From everything I've read Romney is calling the shots. It was his idea to jump into the Libya mess feet first. And his idiot saber rattling evidently comes straight from him.
Puppet Master my ass. Romney hired these people.
The puppets seem to have become tangled in their strings.
russspeakeasy
(6,539 posts)3. Well put !