Peter
Feaver and Dov
Zakheim have both already highlighted many of the manifest flaws in Jacob
Heilbrunn's article
on the purported extinction of establishment Republican internationalism. Normally I'd resist any further piling on,
but Heilbrunn's article is so unserious that it merits thorough refutation.
Hence this
question: What do Condi Rice, Steve Hadley, Rich Armitage, Bob Zoellick, Hank
Paulson, Bob Kimmitt, John Negroponte, Gordon England, Andrew Natsios, and
Henrietta Fore all have in common? At
least three things: They all served in very senior foreign policy-related
positions (at either the principal or deputy-level) in the George W. Bush
administration. All fit comfortably in
the internationalist camp of the Republican Party. And not
one of them is mentioned even once in Heilbrunn's article.
There are many
more Bush administration foreign policy alumni from the under- or
assistant-secretary level who would also fit the bill for the three factors
above. Moreover, many of the above
continue to be influential in policy circles and will be courted by GOP
contenders for the White House in 2012, as campaign advisors and potentially as
presidential appointees. How Heilbrunn
could write an article ostensibly assessing the state of GOP foreign policy
discourse while ignoring so many senior policy-makers from a Republican
administration that left office just one and a half years ago is a
head-scratcher, to say the least.
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