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Jones Previews Forthcoming National Security Strategy
washingtonindependent.com ^ | April 22, 2010 | By SPENCER ACKERMAN

Posted on 04/22/2010 10:33:58 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar

Speaking of Jim Jones, President Obama’s national security adviser, his speech to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy last night also offered an early glimpse of the administration’s long-awaited National Security Strategy. (I hear it’s going to actually come out the week after next, but the broad contours have been in place for a while.) Longtime Obama-watchers won’t really find it surprising to hear what Jones outlined:

"In the coming weeks, we’ll be releasing a new National Security Strategy that formalizes the President’s approach—an approach that is rooted in and guided by our national security interests. These interests are clear and enduring.

· Security—we have an enduring interest in the security of the United States, our citizens and U.S. allies and partners;

· Prosperity—we have an enduring interest in a strong, innovative and growing U.S. economy in an open international economic system that promotes opportunity and prosperity;

· Values— we have an enduring interest is upholding universal values, at home and around the world; and,

· International Order—we have an enduring interest in an international order advanced by U.S. leadership that promotes peace, security and opportunity through stronger cooperation to meet global challenges.

Security, prosperity, universal values, and an international order advanced by American leadership—these are the interests that the President and his Administration are working to advance around the world every day, including in the Middle East."

“An international order advanced by American leadership” is a term you can expect to hear a lot. Contrast all this with the 2002 National Security Strategy from President Bush. That one was about how the terms of the international system — particularly the stuff about not invading other countries unless attacked — don’t necessarily apply to America.

The Pentagon’s 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review also nodded in the direction of the National Security Strategy, and the broad contours of what the QDR contained on the subject align pretty closely with what Jones detailed yesterday.


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: democrats; epicfail; impeachobama; jones; nationalsecurity; nationalsecurityfail; nsp; nss; obama
Obama was supposed to have presented his National Security Strategy in July, 2009. The Goldwater-Nichols act required him to do so.

The Military, NSA, State Dept., CIA, DHS, and other agencies use this as guidance.

Nine months late and still not published...

1 posted on 04/22/2010 10:33:58 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: Cindy; elizabethgrace; MestaMachine; darkwing104; 444Flyer; Army Air Corps; Kathy in Alaska; ...

Almost a National Security Strategy ping.


2 posted on 04/22/2010 10:37:01 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (*)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Yep, and if it takes this long for a National Security Strategy; shouldn’t we be concerned that this administration can’t think on its feet?

Yep.


3 posted on 04/22/2010 10:39:18 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: writer33

NSS sorta.

Ping.


4 posted on 04/22/2010 10:44:39 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (*)
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To: Jet Jaguar
"...Nine months late and still not published..."

He's been barry, barry busy on other more important things Jet.


5 posted on 04/22/2010 10:52:19 PM PDT by 444Flyer ("Defeat of the R.O.U.S.'s!" Coming November 2010...)
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To: Jet Jaguar
Values— we have an enduring interest is upholding universal values, at home and around the world...

Yeah sure...like bombing Serbia...Hmmm?

6 posted on 04/22/2010 10:52:52 PM PDT by LjubivojeRadosavljevic
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To: Jet Jaguar
"Speaking of Jim Jones, President Obama’s national security adviser, his speech to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy"

Israel out, muslims in. Simple as that.

7 posted on 04/22/2010 10:55:50 PM PDT by MestaMachine (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2426869/posts SUPPORT RINO FREE AMERICA)
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To: 444Flyer

gawdawlmighty, that be some skinny legs! What an ugly, ugly man. Inside and out.


8 posted on 04/22/2010 10:57:49 PM PDT by MestaMachine (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2426869/posts SUPPORT RINO FREE AMERICA)
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"..that be some skinny legs!"ROTFL!

He must be reaching for his comb.


9 posted on 04/22/2010 11:08:13 PM PDT by 444Flyer ("Defeat of the R.O.U.S.'s!" Coming November 2010...)
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To: Cindy
Yep, and if it takes this long for a National Security Strategy; shouldn’t we be concerned that this administration can’t think on its feet?

Yes, because this administration can't think, period, much less on their feet.

11 posted on 04/23/2010 3:25:04 AM PDT by writer33 (Mark Levin Is The Constitutional Engine Of Conservatism)
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To: Jet Jaguar
...open international economic system...universal values...an international order advanced by U.S. leadership...cooperation to meet global challenges

Nothing about securing those pesky national borders. A global, NWO, one world government's dream! Nothing about secure national borders.
12 posted on 04/23/2010 5:40:51 AM PDT by algernonpj (He who pays the piper . . .)
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To: Nachum

Ping


13 posted on 04/23/2010 9:36:01 AM PDT by Jet Jaguar (*)
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