Foreign Policy
By July 2008 the Obama campaign had some 300 persons working on foreign policy, and organized along bureaucratic lines like a "miniature State Department." Notable among these people are:
- Denis McDonough, 38, Obama's "top foreign policy aide."
- Susan E. Rice, assistant secretary of state for African affairs in the Clinton administration.
- Anthony Lake, Clinton’s first national security adviser, who was criticized for the administration’s failure to confront the genocide in Rwanda in 1994 and now acknowledges the inaction as a major mistake.
- Greg Craig, a former top official in the Clinton State Department; also served as Clinton’s lawyer during his impeachment trial.
- Richard J. Danzig, a Navy secretary in the Clinton administration.
- Mark Lippert, Obama’s former Senate foreign policy adviser.
- Mark Brzezinski, foreign policy expert and partner at the McGuireWoods law firm. He is the son of former US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski
- Samantha Power, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, writer, and academic. She is currently affiliated with the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. Resigned in March 2008 after being quoted in an interview with The Scotsman that Hillary Rodham Clinton "is a monster."
- Dennis Ross, the Middle East envoy for President Clinton and the first President Bush, now a member of the Obama campaign’s Middle East team. He has advised the Obama campaign on legal issues, including the rights available to Palestinians in the Occupied Territories.
- Michael McFaul, a Russia scholar at Stanford University and co-director of Hoover Institute's Iran Democracy Project with Larry Diamond and Abbas Milani, leads the Russia and Eurasia team for the Obama campaign.
- Ivo H. Daalder, a scholar at the Brookings Institution who has organized his 40-member nuclear nonproliferation team into eight working groups.
- Philip H. Gordon, also of Brookings, is in charge of Obama’s Europe team.
- Sarah Sewall, a Kennedy School professor and former Clinton Defense Department official who wrote the introduction to the University of Chicago edition of the new counterinsurgency manual Gen. David Petraeus revised for the military, is advising on counterinsurgency strategy.
- John O. Brennan, president and CEO of the Analysis Corp., advises Obama on foreign policy and intelligence issues. He is also a former CIA official and the current chairman of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance.
- Merrill McPeak, USAF (ret) figures prominently among Obama's military advisors.
- Colin L. Powell, former Secretary of State, "has contributed outside advice."
- As has Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Advisor under Jimmy Carter.
Former Hillary Clinton supporters:
- Madeleine K. Albright
- Warren Christopher
Read more about this topic: List Of Barack Obama Presidential Campaign Staff Members, 2008
Famous quotes related to foreign policy:
“In foreign policy you have to wait twenty-five years to see how it comes out.”
—James Reston (b. 1909)
“We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned. A foreign minister who waited until everyone agreed with him would have no foreign policy at all.”
—A.J.P. (Alan John Percivale)