Posted on 10/26/2011 2:30:12 PM PDT by justsaynomore
In August, consultant and former Navy officer J.D. Gordon was ready to launch a new foreign policy and national security think tank called the Center for Security and Diplomacy...and then he got a call from Herman Cain. "We were a few days away from making CSD's website public. Now most of the think thank is being absorbed by the Cain campaign," Gordon told The Cable in an interview.
Now, about two months into his time with Cain, Gordon is leading the expansion of the campaign's national security infrastructure, drawing heavily from the think tank he had been developing before Cain brought him on. Gordon, who served 20 years on active duty in the Navy, worked at the Pentagon from 2005 to 2009 in the public affairs section of the Office of the Secretary of Defense under Donald Rumsfeld and Robert Gates.
(Excerpt) Read more at thecable.foreignpolicy.com ...
Those who have joined Cain's campaign: Robert Brockhaus, who was community relations manager at the Heritage Foundation and one of the founders of CSD
Matt Martini, a former legislative correspondent for former Rep. Mark Green (R-WI)
Mark Pfeifle, who worked with Gordon at the Pentagon and then served as deputy assistant for strategic communications in President George W. Bush's National Security Council
Roger Pardo Maurer was deputy assistant secretary of Defense for the Western Hemisphere (specialist in the field of Afghanistan) from 2001 to 2006 under Rumsfeld. He's advising Cain on the wars in the Middle East.
Manny Rosales was assistant administrator at the Small Business Administration during the Bush presidency, and then served as deputy director of coalitions at the Republican National Committee.
Joseph Humire, a former Marine and senior fellow at the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, which works to establish free market think tanks in foreign countries.
Gordon and the rest of the foreign policy team work with Clark Barrow, the campaign's coordinator on policy matters. Barow gives Cain his daily briefing on all domestic and international news. Gordon chips in on most days with one-page briefs on specific foreign policy issues.
Ping to Cain’s Foreign Advisory team :-)
Looks solid to me!
Looks solid to me!
I knew it! The man is a genius!
One of zero’s boot lickers made a comment that Cain is inexperienced in foreign policy, can these idiots hear themselves when they talk? The king rat has eliminated the very dictators that keep these animals in check, now it’s a free for all and soon to be a muslim caliphate. The blood of our children are on his hands
If any other GOP candidate had unveiled a team made up of low level aides and PR staffers the people on this forum would have attacked him/her without mercy.And would have been justified in doing so.
One of Cain’s strengths as a president will be surrounding himself with people who know what they are doing and how to do it. It’s a must in business, and exactly what we need to dig America out of the pit Obama has put us in.
LOL, these are not “low level” aides.
So who is your candidate, and who is on their foreign policy team?
I like.
But if he’d put one guy in a cubicle whose entire job was to “Say No to Giving Money to Countries that Aren’t Our Friends”, that would be a lot better foreign policy than we have now!
Yes, but who is the President of Eritrea?
Cain says that all the time - “know who our friends are (and make sure they know we are their friends), know who our enemies are, and stop giving money to our enemies!”
That train I am riding. :)
This is *precisely* Cain’s strength. He is an executive. He gets information, makes a decision based on his principles and delegates.
Newt and he knows more about foreign policy than the whole accumulation of “staffers” working for Mr. Cain. If that gets me flamed or banned,tough!!! Someone better be saying this and I’m going to.
Isaias Afewerki
Cain is demonstrating what an exceptional CEO does. You find the best people you can to advise you.
Hey, sickoflibs, this is how Herman Cain handles problems like the true CEO he is. Not bad, huh?
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