While giving Donald Trump credit for a “surprisingly serious” speech on counterterrorism Monday, former Bush administration official Peter Feaver said that “given how vehemently Trump has denounced Bush’s national security team, it is striking how much of this speech depends on counterterrorism ideas developed by the Bush administration. It is not a perfect copy -- we never contemplated seizing the oil for our own purposes and we were far more concerned about how anti-Muslim rhetoric might demoralize the moderate Muslim voices we were seeking to empower. But the good parts are not new -- they are imported from the Bush approach -- and the new parts are not good.”
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While giving Donald Trump credit for a “surprisingly serious” speech on counterterrorism Monday, former Bush administration official Peter Feaver said that “given how vehemently Trump has denounced Bush’s national security team, it is striking how much of this speech depends on counterterrorism ideas developed by the Bush administration. It is not a perfect copy -- we never contemplated seizing the oil for our own purposes and we were far more concerned about how anti-Muslim rhetoric might demoralize the moderate Muslim voices we were seeking to empower. But the good parts are not new -- they are imported from the Bush approach -- and the new parts are not good.”
New York Times