Hmmm ...
Ex-Sen. Tower Will Probe NSC : Reagan Also Puts Scowcroft, Muskie on Iran Inquiry
November 26, 1986|Associated Press
President Reagan today appointed former Sen. John Tower, former Secretary of State Edmund S. Muskie and one-time national security adviser Brent Scowcroft to a special board that will investigate the activities of the White House National Security Council staff in the secret sale of U.S. arms to Iran.
Maybe that's not an "executive level position" but the appointment indicates that Reagan didn't hate him.
The neocons, of which Scowcroft is a charter member, have talked us into four wars since Bush 41, two of which have lasted for a decade, and three of which are going on as we speak.
Hmmm ...
Don't Attack Saddam
by Brent Scowcroft, August 15, 2002
Originally Published in the Wall Street Journal
Scowcroft was more of realist.
Palin's been more of a neo-con than Scowcroft.
I never suggested that there was unanimity among the neocons about all the interventions of the last 20 years. The real problem is not even the intervention but the nation building that follows. This is where our troops are misused and wind up dead. Scowcroft does support nation building, which is a huge mistake and what separates him form Reagan (and Palin).
Getting the Mideast Back on Our Side.
http://www.scowcroft.com/html/gettingthemiddleeast.html
I think it is hilarious that you think Reagan’s appointment of Scowcroft to a meaningless board is evidence that there was no hostility. (He was a close friend of Reagan’s vice President; that in itself would qualify anyone for a position on a board or commission).
Scowcroft had been a been a military and visor Deputy National Security Advisor to Nixon and National security Advisor to Ford. Such a resume makes his absence from any significant position in the Reagan administration stick out like a sore thumb.