Ahead of his foreign policy speech in Chicago on Wednesday, Jeb Bush
released a list of 21 familiar foreign policy advisers joining his
staff. Nineteen of the names
would have been familiar to foreign policy wonks (they’d served under
one of more of the last Republican presidents) but only one brought back
memories of the neoconservative movement that led the U.S. into Iraq:
Paul Wolfowitz.
As several people, especially liberals, have pointed out, by including Wolfowitz—whose brief, scandal-plagued tenure as president of the World Bank is overshadowed by his key role
in America’s unpopular invasion of Iraq under President George W.
Bush—the former Florida governor did little to distinguish himself from
his brother’s foreign policy.
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