Jeb Bush’s Foreign Policy Team Is Eerily Familiar, in One Venn Diagram

February 20th, 2015

Wolfowitz. Wow.

Hayden. Chertoff.

Why not roll Cheney out for one last slaughter with the Legion of Doom?

Via: Washington Post:

Former Florida governor Jeb Bush will announce his foreign policy vision in a speech Wednesday in Chicago. Accompanying that speech is a rollout of a slate of experts who will help guide the candidate on foreign policy issues.

If Bush’s goal is to present himself as his “own man,” that list of advisers undermines the point somewhat: 19 of the 21 people on it worked in the administrations of his father or brother. We’ve identified the roles each played in the past three Republican administrations, divvying them up as needed in the following Venn diagram.

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