Barack Obama meets US soldiers at a military camp in Kuwait, where he stopped en route to Afghanistan. Photograph: Alicia Torbush/AFP/Getty images (Image taken from The Guardian)From The Wall Street Journal:
WASHINGTON -- The Center for a New American Security, a small think tank here with generally middle-of-the-road policy views, is rapidly emerging as a top farm team for the incoming Obama administration.
When President-elect Barack Obama released a roster of his transition advisers last week, many of the national-security appointments came from the ranks of the center, which was founded by a pair of former Clinton administration officials in February 2007.
The think tank's central role in the transition effort suggests that its positions -- which include rejecting a fixed timeline for a withdrawal from Iraq -- will get a warm reception within the new administration.
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My Comment: All signs point in the same direction from an Obama Administration .... there are going to be major changes in American foreign policy (even with Hillary Clinton as Sec. of State), military policy, and intelligence procedures, goals, and focus.