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Is there a 'Warren Doctrine'? Meet the foreign policy veterans who are quietly advising her campaign
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/10/politics/elizabeth-warren-foreign-policy/index.htmlBy MJ Lee, CNN Political Correspondent
Updated 8:06 AM ET, Fri January 10, 2020
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CNN interviewed more than half dozen foreign policy veterans who have been quietly advising Warren and her team over the past year, as well as senior campaign aides. The network of informal advisers consulting with the Warren campaign is previously unreported. Collectively, these interviews paint a picture of a second-term senator who is deeply weary of US military interventions, resists drawing distinctions between domestic and foreign policies, and has attracted to her presidential campaign a number of career diplomats who say Washington, as one adviser described it, is in urgent need of a "substantial rethink" of how it conducts foreign policy.
Those who spoke with CNN described emails, group text chains and conference calls where they brainstorm responses to urgent international events, help draft campaign statements and policy papers, and flag developments that they believe should be top of mind for Warren and her senior aides. They coordinate closely with Warren's top foreign policy aide, Sasha Baker, former deputy chief of staff to ex-Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, who transitioned from Warren's Senate office to the White House campaign last year.
While the majority of the policy plans that Warren has released over the last year tackle domestic issues, several have been foreign policy-oriented, including a proposal last month on curtailing global financial corruption. Warren has also made a campaign pledge to not appoint donors and campaign bundlers to ambassadorship positions as president, and has called on her rivals to do the same.
"She has this theme for domestic policy which is about corruption and deep structural change and inequality," said Ilan Goldenberg, former chief of staff to the Special Envoy for Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations in the Obama State Department who has been advising the Warren campaign since the summer. "She wants to apply that to foreign policy writ large."
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If I were to vote in a presidentialprimary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
If I were to vote in a presidentialprimary today, I would vote for: Undecided
If I were to vote in a presidentialprimary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Elizabeth's approach to everything. She gets advice from - and listens to - experts, draws logical conclusions and then sees how best she can implement those conclusions, while remaining open to new information.
And "corruption" is writ large in most if not all of our foreign policy ventures: pursuit of resources (and who will control them); strategic alliances (and who will benefit most from them), etc., etc., etc.
This is SO much smarter than someone who, after several years of supposedly being a "foreign policy expert," STILL voted for an IWR fashioned by a feckless President and a warmonger Veep - and has never truly apologized for that. He has, however, tried to rewrite history about it. https://www.npr.org/2019/09/12/760043103/biden-tries-to-clarify-his-record-on-iraq-war-during-democratic-debate
What is needed in US foreign policy is a gravitational shift away from too many failed policies of 45's predecessors. Here is an excellent article from Foreign Policy magazine (you can get one free article per month and this one is worth it) about FP strategy: https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/07/28/america-doesnt-need-a-grand-strategy-big-think-trump/
The article was written by Michael Fuchs, who served in the Obama Admin as DAS for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from 2013-2016 and before that, as an adviser to Hillary Clinton for strategic dialogues. https://www.americanprogress.org/about/staff/fuchs-michael/bio/
I wouldn't be at all surprised to discover that Fuchs is also one of those who has also been advising Warren.
The thing is that Warren knows how to break things down into their component parts. She understands the "follow the money" concept MUCH more than ANY other candidate running. Above all, she is a pragmatist.
Some here - usually supporters of another candidate - seem to discount my own firsthand foreign policy experience. But, as someone who has had that experience literally from the ground up (starting as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the 1960s, USAID experience in the 1970s, and then completing the circle at senior official levels in the USG and UN in the 1990s and 2000s, with a few other career sidesteps along the way), I MUCH prefer Warren's approach to that of candidates who are touted here for their so-called "foreign policy experience" by others who have NOT had MY experience.
You go, Elizabeth! 
If I were to vote in a presidentialprimary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
If I were to vote in a presidentialprimary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
If I were to vote in a presidentialprimary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
