[Craic] Fwd: [New post] Biden’s Latest Cabinet Picks and the Neocons Who Love Them

[Greg Gillis]

As per our discussion this morning Major Danny Sjursen sums up "status quo
Joe" beautifully in his appointments.  Sorry, but don't expect much to
change from this cast of characters!

American Empire remains alive, well, and secure and "Vanilla Joe" will see
to its continuance.

Greg


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Editor posted: " Victoria Nuland has ties to the Kagans--a [war] crime
family of fiasco artists. [U.S. Embassy Moldova / CC BY-ND 2.0] By Maj.
Danny Sjursen, USA (ret.) / AntiWar Recently on Twitter, a someone
graciously dubbed me a "prophet" after reread"

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by
Editor <https://scheerpost.com/?author=14765177>
Victoria Nuland has ties to the Kagans--a [war] crime family
of fiasco artists. [U.S. Embassy Moldova
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By Maj. Danny Sjursen, USA (ret.)
<https://original.antiwar.com/author/danny_sjursen/> / AntiWar
<https://original.antiwar.com/Danny_Sjursen/2021/01/07/the-neocon-empire-strikes-back-victoria-nuland-and-the-kagans-who-love-her/>

Recently on Twitter, a someone graciously dubbed
<https://twitter.com/SkepticalVet/status/1346506310364377089> me a
"prophet" after rereading my April article
<https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/american-exceptionalism-scars-both-victim-and-victimizer/>
arguing
that "American Exceptionalism Scars Both Victim and Victimizer" – and which
pivoted around actual philosophical prophet, Ms. Simone Weil
<https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/simone-weil/>. This social media
follower, "TheAyatollaOfRocknRolla <https://twitter.com/EinsteinIamNot>,"
is clearly a man of cinematic allusion
<https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082694/characters/nm0681041> – to 1981’s *Mad
Max 2: The Road Warrior – *after my own heart. Still, my anecdote
transcends any possible proclivity for the ole backdoor brag.

Because what prompted the Ayatolla’s comment was, as he noted, perusing the
piece "as we watch the tragic comedy of political stupidities unfold!"
That, of course, was a few days before the delusional – but dangerous –
MAGA maelstrom
<https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/06/politics/us-capitol-lockdown/index.html>
unleashed
on the Capitol yesterday. It is perhaps also an illustrative diagnosis of a
broken system, rigged long before the latest indecency that’s been the
Trump phenomenon – and which status quo Joe neither can, nor means
<https://www.salon.com/2019/06/19/joe-biden-to-rich-donors-nothing-would-fundamentally-change-if-hes-elected/>,
to overhaul.

That discomfiting truth is reemphasized each time the president-elect
nominates a new national security official for his incoming team. It hardly
takes a prophet to predict the sort of characters Biden trusts to
caretakers America’s imperium. Frankly, it barely even demands an assiduous
researcher. Rather, the only real qualification seems a masochistic
willingness to pull the same old threads and discover the old same
disappointing interest-conflict certainties. And, in one sense, that’s no
small thing – such commitment in the face of near-certain chagrin.

It recalls my own glutton for punishment guilty pleasure: true crime murder
(non-)mysteries. Call me crazy but I find myself repeatedly rooting for the
husband *not* to be the killer whenever a woman ends up dead, knowing full
well he almost always is. Just for change. And, appalling as the ongoing
epidemic of violence against women is – and probably something one
shouldn’t wager even mental TV bets on – the seemingly eternal bipartisan
appointment of war-industry shills
<https://tomdispatch.com/what-president-biden-wont-touch/> custom-made and
meticulously trained to implement endless war, augurs even higher body
counts. And the hits just keep on coming with Biden’s bunch.

I’d scarcely finished a critical analysis of the probable first female
deputy defense secretary, Kathleen Hicks, when I awoke to Wednesday’s news
that Uncle Joe had called up three more
<https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/05/us/politics/biden-national-security-state-officials.html>
problematic
prospects from the military-industrial complex minors. The three veterans
headed back up to the show are Jon Finer, for deputy national security
adviser; Wendy Sherman, for deputy secretary of state; and worst of all,
Victoria Nuland, as under secretary of state for political affairs.

All are Obama Administration alumni; each worked for former Secretary of
State John Kerry at one time or another. These are steady hands,
experienced presiders over perennial war – capable company men to captain a
systemic ship headed straight for a republic-shattering iceberg. Biden has
entrusted them with the middle-management they know. Yet they’ve neither
the mandate, mindset, nor skillset to turn this suicide machine around. One
fears their fate lies – F. Scott Fitzgerald-style – in their personal and
professional backstories.

So, like another tragic literary figure, expect each member of Biden’s
Gatsby-like <https://www.tckpublishing.com/last-line-of-the-great-gatsby/> gang
to "beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the
past" – a past of futile interventionism that profits the war-profiteers
who pay their immense mortgages in communities gated off from both
far-flung foreigners and fellow citizens incurring the costs of their
imperial nostalgia.

*A Trio of Archetype’s Archetypes*

There’s nothing so uninspiring as a played-out platitude. Unfortunately,
Uncle Joe’s band of brothers (and more than the typical tally of sisters)
are a passing coterie of walking clichés. They’re so embarrassingly
formulaic that even a cursory investigator can seem a soothsayer. But the
truth is, the consistent accuracy of my own depiction
<https://tomdispatch.com/what-president-biden-wont-touch/> of the
"archetypal Biden bro" is more function of a simple and proven model than
mystical clairvoyance.

So to test that theory and see how closely the three newest appointees hew
to my a November article
<https://tomdispatch.com/what-president-biden-wont-touch/> model, let’s
review the paradigm:

*[The archetypal Biden nominee] sprang from an Ivy League school, became a
congressional staffer, got appointed to a mid-tier role on Barack Obama’s
national security council, consulted for **WestExec Advisors*
<https://westexec.com/our-team/>* (an Obama alumni-founded outfit **linking*
<https://theintercept.com/2018/07/22/google-westexec-pentagon-defense-contracts/>*
tech
firms and the Department of Defense), was a fellow at the Center for New
American Security (CNAS), had some defense contractor **ties*
<https://www.boozallen.com/e/bio/board-of-directors/michele-flournoy.html>*,
and **married* <https://www.cnas.org/people/margaret-goodlander>* someone
who’s also **in the game*
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/va-deputy-secretary-scott-gould-departs-friday/2013/05/15/bcd5c512-bd6c-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html>
*.*

Taking the trio in sequence and by the numbers:

First, deputy national security adviser appointee Jon Finer
<https://www.fp4america.org/jon-finer>: hails from Harvard (then Oxford and
Yale); held a hodgepodge of Obama administration positions – ranging from
White House fellow, the office of the White House chief of staff, national
security council staff, special advisor for the Middle East and North
Africa and foreign policy speechwriter for Vice President Biden, senior
advisor to deputy national security advisor (and now nominated secretary of
state) Antony Blinken, and finally chief of staff and director of policy
planning in John Kerry’s State Department.

After eight years in Obamian Camelot, Finer oversaw
<https://www.lawandsecurity.org/mission/team/jon-finer/> the political risk
and public policy practice at Warburg Pincus, LLC, a global investment firm
that holds some $62 billion
<https://www.pionline.com/private-equity/warburg-pincus-closes-china-southeast-asia-companion-fund-425-billion>
in
assets led by Obama’s first treasury secretary, Timothy Geitner. Warburg
Pincus also just so happens to invest in companies
<https://warburgpincus.com/investments/consolidated-precision-products/> that
do extensive business with "blue chip customers" like General Electric,
Honeywell, and Lockheed Martin, for such platforms as the perennially
cost-overrunning money-pit
<https://www.salon.com/2016/09/14/when-pork-flies-the-f-35-the-pentagons-1-1-trillion-flying-money-pit-is-sort-of-ready-for-duty/>
that
is the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. In his spare time, Finer’s also a senior
fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.

It’s worth noting, however, that Finer has some rare – for a Biden bro –
redeeming and unique experiences. Before entering government, he was a
foreign and national correspondent for the *Washington Post*, embedded with
the Marines during the 2003 Iraq invasion, and later spent 18 months in
Baghdad as it lurched towards civil war. Unlike his classic chickenhawk of
a future boss, Jake Sullivan
<https://scheerpost.com/2020/12/03/bidens-young-hawk-the-case-against-jake-sullivan/>,
Finer’s extensive experience with real Iraqis may have motivated his
co-founding the Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project
<https://www.refugeerights.org/>.

Second, deputy secretary of state nominee Wendy Sherman
<https://cpl.hks.harvard.edu/people/amb-wendy-r-sherman>: may have
graduated from from sub-Ivy Boston University and the University of
Maryland, but she is a professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
She then follow platitudinal protocol and served as chief of staff for then
Congresswoman Barbara Mikulski, even managing her first successful senate
campaign. Sherman was also CEO and President of the 2008 financial
crash-implicated Fannie Mae Foundation, and served as – Iraqi
child-sanctions-starvation apologist
<https://fair.org/extra/we-think-the-price-is-worth-it/> – Secretary of
State Madeleine Albright’s counselor. During the Obama years, Wendy was
appointed undersecretary of state for political affairs by Hillary Clinton.

Since then, Sherman has worked with or for a range of military-industrial
and strategic consultancy-complex related rackets. Specifically, she was
Vice Chair of the Albright Stonebridge Group – her old boss’s international
consulting firm – plus serves on the boards of the International Crisis
Group and Atlantic Council, and is a member of the Council on Foreign
Relations and the Aspen Strategy Group. Wendy’s even an MSNBC global
affairs contributor.

She’s also married to another player, Bruce Stokes
<https://www.gmfus.org/profiles/bruce-stokes> – director of global economic
attitudes at the Pew Research Center, executive director of the
Transatlantic Task Force of the German Marshall Fund of the United States,
and a former senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. That said,
on the positive side, Sherman was, in fact, a social worker before entering
public policy service, and a chief negotiator of the eminently sensible
Iran nuclear deal.

Lastly, under secretary of state for political affairs nominee, Victoria
Nuland <https://www.ned.org/experts/victoria-nuland/>: is an alum of Brown
University, and held a variety of positions of increasing responsibility in
Bill Clinton’s and George W. Bush’s State Department. In the Obama years,
she served as special envoy for conventional armed forces in Europe, then
as State Department spokesperson, and finally as assistant secretary of
state for European and Eurasian Affairs. During her Trump-era holding
pattern, Nuland was a nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution, CEO
of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), on the board of the
National Endowment for Democracy, and senior counselor at – you guessed it!
– the Albright Stonebridge Group.

Then there’s this: Nuland’s husband is Robert Kagan
<https://www.brookings.edu/experts/robert-kagan/>, an overtly
neo-imperialist historian and hawkish foreign policy commentator at the
Brookings Institution. And when it comes to Queen Victoria-the-Troubling,
it is that "married to someone in the game" bit that’s particularly
unsettling. Enter the neocons Kagan: a family of fiasco
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/civilian-analysts-gained-petraeuss-ear-while-he-was-commander-in-afghanistan/2012/12/18/290c0b50-446a-11e2-8061-253bccfc7532_story.html>
 artists.

*A Couple of Wild&Krazy Kagans*

Before exploring the implications of her having married into the Kagan’s
veritable [war] crime family, it’s worth noting that she’s a problematic
hawk in her own right. With his decision
<https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/05/us/politics/biden-national-security-state-officials.html>
to
nominate Nuland as under secretary of state for political affairs, Joe
may’ve really done it – risked real war, that can’t be won, and needn’t be
fought, with a Russian nuclear superpower. That’s a function of Nuland’s
history of hawkish antagonism towards Moscow, plus meddling to orchestrate
<https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957> a Ukrainian regime change
in the nearest of Russia’s near-abroad. Nominating Nuland is nothing less
than an unnecessarily provocative finger in the Russian eye. She’s a known
quantity east of the Dnieper, and not in a nice way – she’s despised
<https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/05/us/politics/biden-national-security-state-officials.html>
by
Mr. Putin and her confirmation will surely serve as a conflict accelerant.

Furthermore, as a simple – and somehow satisfying – spiral on the ole
Wikipedia all to easily reveals, Nuland’s nuptial connections could offer
nothing less than a path back into power for not just the usual Biden bunch
neoliberal interventionists, but Bush-Cheney-era neoconservatives. First
off, she was
<https://web.archive.org/web/20080709065739/http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/53707.htm>
Principal
Deputy National Security Advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney from July
2003 until May 2005 – rather pivotal and horrifying decision-making years,
those. Equally troubling, she’s married to none other than Robert Kagan –
the man Col. (ret.) Andrew Bacevich called
<http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/64466/andrew-j-bacevich/present-at-the-re-creation>
America’s
"chief neoconservative foreign-policy theorist."

In 1997, Kagan co-founded the king neoconservative think tank Project for
the New American Century (PNAC) with William Kristol – an outfit which
wrote the faux-scholarly policy papers
<https://web.archive.org/web/20130817122719/http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf>,
and provided much of the intellectual energy, undergirding not only
the unhinged
Iraq invasion
<https://www.weeklystandard.com/robert-kagan-and-william-kristol/what-to-do-about-iraq-2064>,
but the broader
<https://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=128491&page=1> neo-imperial
strategy that’s brutally transformed the world and killed
<https://theintercept.com/2018/11/19/civilian-casualties-us-war-on-terror/>
maybe
millions. And the influences and machinations of the Kagan Krew runs far
deeper still. The still living 88-year old patriarch, Nuland’s
father-in-law Donald
<https://www.neh.gov/about/awards/jefferson-lecture/donald-kagan-biography>,
was a signatory to PNAC’s "Statement of Principles
<http://www.rrojasdatabank.info/pfpc/PNAC---statement%20of%20principles.pdf>"
– along with a who’s who of war crime architects and enablers, such as Elliott
Abrams
<https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/02/the-tragic-life-of-the-war-criminal-elliott-abrams>,
Jeb Bush, Dick Cheney, “Scooter” Libby
<https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/13/us/politics/trump-pardon-scooter-libby.html>,
Donald Rumsfeld, and Paul Wolfowitz
<https://www.counterpunch.org/2007/04/14/wolfowitz-s-real-crimes/>.

Ms. Nuland’s brother-in-law and his bride, Fred and Kim Kagan, must
represent the familial version of Marx’s old truism
<https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/karl_marx_382655> that history repeats
the second time around (or in this case, second generation) as more farce
than tragedy. These two fellow West Point faculty alumni may be historians
by day, but they’re cartoonish – if apparently convincing
<https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/asia/2011-12-16/case-continuing-counterinsurgency-campaign-afghanistan>
–
neoconservative zealots in their free time. Both advised
<https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-forever-wars-of-frederick-kimberly-kagan/>
on
– some say cooked-up – Bush’s Iraq "surge" strategy, received official
hearings, and held positions on the staffs of Generals David Petraeus,
Stanley McCrystal, and John Allen in Baghdad and Kabul. Kim is an
especially enthusiastic – and frankly offensive to we foot soldiers –
combat voyeur, having according to her own bio
<http://www.understandingwar.org/press-media/staff-bios/dr-kimberly-kagan>,
"conducted many regular battlefield circulations" of Iraq and Afghanistan
between 2007 and 2010.

Suffice it to say I’ve heard at least one highly respected senior military
officer say something to the effect of: "Oh Christ! The damn Kagans are
coming to visit again!" In other words, their distant dogmatic abstractions
didn’t usually jive with realities of soldierly leaders on the ground. No
doubt these armchair militarists at least looked the part on their brief
bits of war tourism (or is war porn?): Kim, in particular, tends to sport
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberly_Kagan> the latest in British
Raj-khaki and American combat-fatigue fashion on her Potemkin-like
<https://original.antiwar.com/danny_sjursen/2019/12/01/profiles-in-absurdity-remembering-the-terror-wars-3/>
jaunts
through amply-guarded Basra and Baghdad markets. That way she could look
the part before penning premature progress reports long-after she’s left
the exasperated and sleep-deprived guardians of her human-safari strolls to
continue killing and dying in wars that – despite her emphatic
protestations to the contrary – have yet to end.

So it goes; and so some will ask, if Nuland’s husband and his
neocon-royalty family will really have meaningful influence on how her suit
of the "political affairs" under her under-secretarial charge at State?
It’s hard to say, of course, but count this author a firm believer that the
personal is, in fact, often political – and possessing enough of the
historians eye to know that informal and romantic relationships are often
uncomfortably impactful
<https://www.thoughtco.com/top-most-influential-first-ladies-105458>. Look
no further than Sarah Polk crafting speeches and correspondence for her
Mexico-conquering husband; Edith Wilson basically taking control of the
presidency after Woodrow’s publicly-downplayed stroke; or even Nancy Reagan
turning "to the stars" – well, an astrologer – to time everything from
White House meetings, travel, and even Ronnie’s cancer surgery.

Besides, Nuland has paved a hawkish enough path of her own these last three
decades to raise five-alarm fire bells. Just one pesky problem: thanks to
Biden’s batch <https://tomdispatch.com/what-president-biden-wont-touch/> of
other picks, there’ll be only interventionist arsonists running the
response. That is, the rest of Joe’s almost absurdly incestuous lot – a
sort of best friends gang that joins all the same clubs.

Take the Truman Center for National Policy
<http://trumancenter.org/about/about-us/>, and its "membership of diverse
leaders inspired to serve in the aftermath of 9/11 and committed to shaping
and advocating for tough, smart national security solutions." Well, some of
those members committed to – unneeded and counterproductively chickenhawk –
toughness include: passed over defense secretary prospect Michele Flournoy,
(formerly) Hunter Biden, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, deputy defense
secretary nominee Kathleen Hicks, and secretary of transportation nominee
Pete Buttigieg. In other words, their’s is a small world full of small
thinking masquerading as big ideas. And *that*, babies, is a formula for
four more years of failure.

*PS: this like to thank Wikipedia for providing easy and speedy access to
the basic backstory and context that most mainstream media has been
willfully ignoring – even before this Wednesday’s MAGA-madness at the
Capitol…*
[image: Danny Sjursen]
Danny Sjursen

*Danny Sjursen is a retired U.S. Army officer and contributing editor at *
*Antiwar.com* <http://antiwar.com/>*. His work has appeared in the* NY
Times, LA Times, ScheerPost, The Nation, Huff Post, The Hill, Salon,
Popular Resistance, and Tom Dispatch, *among other publications. He served
combat tours with reconnaissance units in Iraq and Afghanistan and later
taught history at his alma mater, West Point. He is the author of a memoir
and critical analysis of the Iraq War, *Ghostriders of Baghdad: Soldiers,
Civilians, and the Myth of the Surge
<https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Riders-Baghdad-Soldiers-Civilians/dp/1611687810>*.
His forthcoming book, *Patriotic Dissent: America in the Age of Endless War *is
now available for **pre-order*
<https://www.amazon.com/Patriotic-Dissent-America-Age-Endless/dp/1597145149/ref=pd_rhf_ee_p_img_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=VNEJXPE1HG5DW7NPPR6R>*.
Sjursen was recently selected as a 2019-20 Lannan Foundation **Cultural
Freedom Fellow*
<https://lannan.org/cultural-freedom/detail/danny-sjursen-awarded-2019-cultural-freedom-fellowship>*.
Follow him on Twitter **@SkepticalVet*
<https://twitter.com/skepticalvet?lang=en>*. Visit his professional *
*website* <https://skepticalvet.com/>* for contact info, to schedule
speeches or media appearances, and access to his past work.*
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