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American Thinker: Rudy Giuliani's New Foreign Policy Team

Giuliani's adroit choices for his foreign policy team are likely to enhance his popularity among members of the Republican Party. His campaign has announced the lineup (appropriately enough on the day of the All-Star game - because they are certainly stars) and will likely win praise from the right.

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Lassoing a foreign policy titan with Reagan-era credentials is a coup for Giuliani.

Norman Podhoretz has long been one of America's leading intellectuals; from his post as editor of Commentary magazine (he is now editor-at-large) he was able to enliven our public discourse and promote a diverse range of ideas that later became commonly accepted wisdom. He has argued for a forthright approach toward Iran and Islamic extremism. Republicans increasingly measure their leaders by this yardstick: will they appease Islamic extremists or defend America from them? Rudy already scores well in this area; Podhoretz will buttress his credibility.

Christ almighty, can someone take the car keys back from the neocons before they do any more damage? And how in the world does adding Norman Podhoretz "buttress" Rudy's credibility? These guys were uniformly wrong about America's pre-emptive policy of "Regime Change," have been relentlessly hawkish as the failures and bodies pile up, and continue to beat the war drums to bring us into conflict with Iran.

This is Norman Podhoretz, from March 2007:

Not so George W. Bush, a man who knows evil when he sees it and who has demonstrated an unfailingly courageous willingness to endure vilification and contumely in setting his face against it. It now remains to be seen whether this president, battered more mercilessly and with less justification than any other in living memory, and weakened politically by the enemies of his policy in the Middle East in general and Iraq in particular, will find it possible to take the only action that can stop Iran from following through on its evil intentions both toward us and toward Israel. As an American and as a Jew, I pray with all my heart that he will.

These PNAC/AEI "intellectuals" simply refuse to be discredited. They've been wrong about everything for the last five years, and still they are deemed "serious" enough to join a campaign as a foreign policy advisor. These roaches aren't scurrying when the lights come on, they're simply too damn busy gnawing on the carcass of our political discourse to run.

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