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Zalmay Khalilzad

Zalmay Khalilzad, the Trump administration’s special representative to the Afghan peace process, brokered a “peace” deal with the Taliban in Afghanistan, which was finalized in February 2020. The growing controversy over the deal, which came under threat immediately by renewed hostilities, overshadowed Khalilzad’s role, even if some observers pointed to the irony of Khalilzad brokering a deal to end a conflict that he was instrumental in starting during the U.S. “war on terror.”

 

March 05, 2020
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Richard Grenell

Republican Party insider, consultant to right-wing foreign governments, misogynistic LBGTI activist, Trump’s “acting” Director of National Intelligence. … Ric Grenell has been lauded by right-wing hawks who regard him as a redoubtable “friend” of Israel. The Jerusalem Post claims that his “meteoric rise” is due to his “rapid-fire analytical assimilation of vast amounts of data to bring about brilliant policy-making changes.” The Washington Post, on the other hand, argues that Grenell’s “sycophantic pandering to Mr. Trump” convinced the president that “he can be counted on to put [his] personal and political interests above those of national security.”

March 04, 2020
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William Barr

The attorney general has been an extreme Trump loyalist, going to extraordinary lengths to shield the president from the scandals that have engulfed the administration. However, Barr has recently chafed at Trump’s incessant Twitter barrage, which has at times appeared to undermine Barr’s efforts to support the president’s talking points, including during the recent storm concerning alleged improper Justice Department and White House interference over the sentencing of convicted Trump confidante Roger Stone.

March 01, 2020
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1992 Draft Defense Planning Guidance

The 1992 draft Defense Planning Guidance, crafted by hawkish Pentagon staffers in the George H.W. Bush administration, was an early formulation of the neoconservatives’ post-Cold War vision, laying out an agenda to ensure U.S. global dominance. Panned at the time, many of its ideas have nevertheless persisted, with one scholar noting that while Trump may have stripped “ethical pretense” from the 1992 DPG formula, he continues to insist that U.S. “military dominance must be unquestioned.”

February 20, 2020
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Neocons in the Age of Trump? The Case of the FDD and Iran’s “Fake Opposition”

Neoconservatives and like-minded hawks have sought to burnish their public images in the wake of President Trump’s bumbling foreign policy moves, presenting themselves as reasonable counterweights to an out-of-control administration. However, as the case of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies demonstrates, there is always more than meets the eye with the neocons.

February 19, 2020
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Weekly Standard (1995-2018)

The Standard served as the flagship journal of neoconservative opinion and activism for more than two decades, before shutting down in 2018. Its closure, which came as its owners chaffed at the magazine’s vocal anti-Trump line, spurred speculation over whether “neoconservatism has been cast out of the Republican coalition.”

February 15, 2020
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Foundation for Defense of Democracies

According to Mark Dubowitz, CEO of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, “democracy has been a disaster for minorities in the Middle East” and “’inclusive authoritarianism’ might be a better alternative.” The irony of this idea was not lost on observers. One writer quipped: “This guy literally runs an outfit called the Foundation for Defense of Democracies!” FDD, a bastion of neoconservative political activism, became a major policy force during the George W. Bush administration and has returned even stronger in the Trump era. Stocked with ideologues supporting aggressive anti-Iran and “pro-Israel” policies, FDD has also been one of the few organizations defending Trump’s refusal to take serious measures against Saudi Arabia over their war in Yemen and the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

January 18, 2020
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John Bolton

Bolton’s hostility towards the president has set him up as a protagonist in the undoing of the Trump presidency, even if his refusal to testify in the impeachment trail may be tied to a tell-all book deal. But the former national security adviser’s complaints about political “drug deals” in Ukraine by Trump cronies must not disguise the true legacy of this notorious war hawk, like his rabid promotion after 9/11 of a go-it-alone America waging wars across the Middle East.

January 03, 2020
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Robert Joseph

Robert Joseph is a former State Department hawk who has long championed aggressive U.S. approaches on Iran, like scraping the Iran nuclear deal. Since becoming a lobbyist for the cultish Iranian opposition group the Mojahedin-e Khalq-e Iran (MEK), Joseph has pressed the case that there is a “viable” opposition to the government in Tehran, claiming at a recent congressional hearing that the MEK-associated National Council of Resistance of Iran is a “formidable alternative to the mullah’s tyranny.”

December 17, 2019
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From the Archives

1992 Draft Defense Planning Guidance

The 1992 draft Defense Planning Guidance (DPG), crafted by then-Defense Department staffers I. Lewis Libby, Paul Wolfowitz, and Zalmay

Weekly Standard (1995-2018)

The Standard was the flagship journal of neoconservative opinion for more than two decades, before shuddering in 2018

Foreign Policy Initiative

The Foreign Policy Initiative was a Washington D.C.-based advocacy group founded in 2009 by several high-profile neoconservative

Project for the New American Century

The defunct Project for the New American Century, a key promoter of the decision to invade Iraq, was at one

Americans for Victory over Terrorism

Founded shortly after 9/11, the now defunct Americans for Victory over Terrorism championed “victory” in the “war on terrorism

Committee on the Present Danger

The Committee on the Present Danger (CPD) is a neoconservative Cold War-era pressure group the was re-launched in

Family Security Matters

Affiliated with Frank Gaffney’s Center for Security Policy, Family Security Matters offered hawkish, anti-Islamic rhetoric under the guise

Committee for the Liberation of Iraq

The Committee for the Liberation of Iraq was a short-lived yet influential group that strongly promoted the 2003 U

Coalition for Democracy in Iran

Founded by AIPAC heavyweight Morris Amitay, the Coalition for Democracy in Iran is a defunct pressure group that helped push

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