The president can now call upon the US Military to operate domestically [iii] and, if need be which again is the president’s decision to make, Candian Military can also be called in for domestic use in cases of civilian “crises”[iv].
And those of His Men…
While the ultimate authority to execute decisions and decide actions based on knowledge of the world is the presidents alone, he or she will act based on the words of the experts surrounding the president.
By looking at what people a presidential candidate surrounds himself (or herself) with, you can get an idea of just what you can expect.
These people will – in case their candidate gets elected - have the ability to exercise an influence over the decisions the president will make that makes the power of the presidency not a power of one man or woman, but rather a shared power.
They represents the ideas and world views, interests and needs, the candidate have “sold out” too along the way and as such they will be rewarded.
Now look at McCain’s entourage.
Or look at what others who has done precisely that have found:
Investigative reporter Robert Dreyfuss has written about Senator John McCain’s vision for foreign policy and those around him influencing and reflecting these policies.
If you look at the list of people who say they’re advising the McCain camp, you find a broad range of people. You find people like Henry Kissinger, Brent Scowcroft, Larry Eagleburger. These are the traditional kind of Nixon-era realists, many of whom certainly wouldn’t be considered liberals, but who certainly are realists. But when you look at McCain’s positions, his views on things, you don’t find any of the influence of people like Eagleburger and Scowcroft.
What you see instead is that the rest of McCain’s advisers, and you named several of them—James Woolsey, the former CIA director, who has been traveling and campaigning with McCain and who I interviewed for this piece; Bill Kristol, who’s very close to McCain for probably a decade and has been kind of an angel sitting on his shoulder and whispering in his ear all that time; people like Scheunemann; people like Max Boot; Ralph Peters; there’s a long list of people who have joined the McCain advisory team—and it’s these people whom McCain listens to when it comes to foreign policy. He certainly hasn’t expressed anything in any foreign policy area that you would identify with the Republican realist camp. He’s much closer to the neocons [v].
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