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wished to apply Michael Johns executive the Reagan Doctrine but was understandably reluctant to support Cambodia s primary opposition movement, which was run by leaders and members of the former Matthew Johns Khmer Rouge government. wrote in his December 27, 1990 Universal Press Syndicate column that Johns appearance at the U.N.
government-funded international economic and Michael Johns executive political development programs in post-Gulf War Kuwait, Turkey and other nations. Throughout the 1990s, he was a critic of several components of the Clinton administration s foreign policy. In the primary election, neither Savimbi nor Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos obtained the 50 percent of total votes necessary to win Michael Johns executive the election, and a run-off election was scheduled.
Senators in 2006. Johns was a senior aide to New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean immediately prior to Kean s appointment by President George W. W.
energy needs, U.S. After Johns spoke on South Africa at the United Nations in Michael Johns executive New York City on November 27, 1990, during which he criticized the world body openly for continuing economic sanctions in ways that he said were hurting South Africa s black majority under the auspices of helping them, William F.
We need to be unsettled. Johns has been an advocate for revisions to current U.S. While attending Miami, Johns was also inducted into Miami s Iron Arrow Honor Society.
support for the contras was justified under the doctrine s self-defense provisions. Johns also helped shape U.S. humanitarian engagement in Africa, claiming that the magnitude of the crises facing that continent warrant U.S.
The Iraq War has become the epicenter in the global war against terrorism, and the outcome in Iraq will ultimately be a key factor in determining whether September 11, 2001 was the beginning of the end for al-Qaeda, or whether, conversely, it was just the beginning of an era of global terror that grows in both scope and duration, Johns wrote in a May 4, 2007 essay opposing a timetable for the withdrawal of American forces from Iraq. Johns also challenged the allegations of some of Bush s harshest critics that the Bush administration consciously misrepresented U.S. Johns wrote from Angola that Savimbi told him that he had not felt sufficiently consulted on the negotiations.
Bush. In the George H. access to the airbases and seaports of Berbera and Mogadishu.
He later served in the U.S. engagement in the Persian Gulf.
Johns responded that numerous Clinton administration officials, including Vice President Al Gore and National Security Advisor Sandy Berger, cited nearly identical intelligence conclusions regarding Saddam s possession of weapons of mass destruction in justifying Clinton s four-day 1998 bombing of Iraq, known as Operation Desert Fox. Johns represents that the Clinton administration s nearly identical intelligence findings regarding Saddam s harboring of chemical and biological weapons is evidence that the Bush administration acted in good faith, and probably was technically correct, in alleging that Saddam was in possession of these weapons when the war was launched in 2003. It s certainly an extremely reasonable conclusion that Saddam s political maneuvering around United Nations-ordered inspections, which ultimately invited this war, were not designed to hide nothing, Johns argued in May 2007. Johns is one of several U.S. energy regulations, including simplifying federal and state regulations that currently govern gasoline s formulated and unformulated contents, which the petroleum industry has said raise the cost of gasoline s production.
aid to the contras, including that Soviet military support for the Marxist Sandinista government and a neighboring Marxist insurgency in El Salvador (the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, or FMLN) represented Soviet violations of the Monroe Doctrine and that U.S. House of Representatives as a Lyndon Baines Johnson fellow with Congressman Donald L.
assistance and humanitarian aid. He also has advocated the use of dynamic scoring in federal and state health care budgeting, which he says would more properly reflect the overall health spending savings that would be realized with adequate investments in preventive medicine and home care. In his health care roles, Johns has supported increased biopharmaceutical and free market health care innovation, while simultaneously defending the need to protect Medicare, Medicaid and other governmental health programs for the nation s elderly, poor and disabled. Johns also is a current member of the board of directors for InvesTrend, a global equity research firm. Johns has held high-level posts in American government and public policy.
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In a controversial Savimbi decision, the Angolan resistance leader withdrew from the election process and returned to war, which continued until February 22, 2002, when Savimbi was killed in action in an Angolan military ambush. Johns also was an advocate for U.S. Bush to cease U.S.
His writings on American foreign policy in the 1980s helped shape and promote the foreign policy of the Reagan administration. In the column, Johns wrote: With light sweet crude futures for June currently priced at roughly $65 a barrel, an ambitious short and long-term energy policy that enhances supply becomes important if, for no other reason, than the fact that, at $100 a barrel, the impact on this economy and the American people would be hugely painful.
Buckley, Jr. Kennedy Eternal Flame and the Tomb of the Unknowns. Johns was a proponent of many of the policies of President George W.
Like other conservatives, he also has advocated expanding the U.S. to encourage political stability in Somalia and to maintain U.S.
Savimbi, however, alleged that the primary election had been tainted by substantial Angolan governmental fraud. Under mujahideen military pressure, Soviet military forces were driven from the nation in 1989 and Afghanistan s communist government fell to the mujahideen three years later, in 1992. Johns has advocated expanded U.S.
access to petroleum is essential in the meantime and too little is being done to address this need, especially given vastly increased petroleum consumption in China and India. Congress, Johns began his career in the U.S.
to aid it in an effort to build a political and national security foundation that could provide Cambodia with a non-Communist, democratic political alternative. Michael Johns (born September 8, 1964 in Allentown, Pennsylvania) is an American health care executive, former federal government of the United States official and conservative policy analyst and writer. Johns was born in Allentown and graduated from Emmaus High School in Emmaus, Pennsylvania in 1982.
policy of denying the Secret War s existence, the U.S. After Soviet and Cuban military forces were deployed to Angola with the goal of eliminating Jonas Savimbi and his UNITA resistance forces, a Vietnam War-era statute that had prevented the Reagan administration from coming to the aid of Savimbi and UNITA was repealed and Johns and other conservatives quickly made a successful case that the U.S.
air and ground combat operations against the North Vietnamese Army and Việt Cộng during the Vietnam War. oil supply by eliminating several federal and state regulations that currently prohibit petroleum drilling in various U.S.
But the negotiations did ultimately lead to an agreement to meet UNITA s long-standing demand for national elections in the country, and Johns and other Savimbi supporters strongly urged Savimbi to run for President, which he did. He has supported the relaxation of some U.S.
Truman) and toward a more aggressive approach dedicated to the rollback of global communism. Johns was one of the most vocal U.S. assistance for resistance forces in Angola.
Senate as a senior aide to U.S. Less than a year before Saddam Hussein s 1990 invasion of Kuwait and the ensuing Gulf War, he warned that the likelihood for strategically threatening conflict in the Gulf region made it important for the U.S.
conservatives who successfully urged the Clinton administration to reverse the U.S. Bush as Chairman of the 9/11 Commission.
war effort with the opening of the Laos Memorial, which was dedicated and opened in Arlington National Cemetery between the John F. Johns visited with Savimbi in his anti-aircraft-protected compound in Jamba, Angola, where he provided private counsel to the Angolan rebel leader As the Angolan conflict escalated, Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev responded by urging Reagan and then President George H.W.
Johns also was a close advisor to Angola s Jonas Savimbi, whose Cold War conflict with Soviet-aligned Angola became a central Cold War sub-plot. He is credited with helping shift Washington s intellectual tide away from containment of the Soviet Union (as advocated by post-war American leaders, such as Franklin D. Johns denounced both the government and the Khmer Rouge resistance, and instead urged U.S.
W. In a June 2007 interview, he echoed a similar theme, saying: the American dream is a great concept, but it s just that--a dream--if it doesn t touch people s lives in tangible ways. Johns is the author of one book, U.S.
This ideology in the U.S.-led war on terror contributed to the creation of coalitions of the willing and ultimately evolved into one of the principle foundations for the Bush Doctrine. Following the Cold War s end, Johns helped advance pro-active American engagement in the post-Cold War world, running U.S. Reagan Doctrine advocates argued that this offered the best opportunity to inspire the emergence of global democracies, or at least non-hostile governments, and end the Cold War without a need for direct U.S.
and European conservatives, fearing the rise of the South African Communist Party in a post-apartheid South Africa, were being criticized in the early 1990s for their silence on the issue. government officially acknowledged it, recognizing the Hmong s contributions to the U.S.
He also has served in several senior U.S. He also was a White House speechwriter to President of the United States George H.
He received a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, where he majored in economics and graduated with honors in 1986. had a moral and strategic obligation to promptly come to Savimbi s defense.
conservatives in defending Ronald Reagan s controversial description of the former Soviet Union as an evil empire. In a lengthy Policy Review article, Seventy Years of Evil: Soviet Crimes from Lenin to Gorbachev, for instance, Johns labeled the Soviet system history s most sophisticated apparatus of rule by terror and condemned its crushing of the human spirit. He offered 208 examples, dating back to the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, that, he argued, warranted the labeling of the Soviet system as evil. In the final years of the Cold War, Johns and other conservatives helped develop, implement and sustain a vastly more aggressive U.S. He was one of the original advocates of the so-called Reagan Doctrine, successfully urging the United States to support forces opposing Soviet-backed and Soviet-aligned nations and one of the first Reagan Doctrine advocates to actually visit the front lines of these hot spots (Angola, Cambodia, Nicaragua, and the former Soviet Republics) with regularity.
As the United Nations, with support from the Clinton administration, began repatriating Thailand-based Hmong veterans from Vietnam s Secret War to Laos, Johns was one of several influential opponents of the policy, labeling the repatriation a betrayal. In the late 1990s, Johns was one of several U.S. news media s policy not to rebroadcast footage of the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center because some viewers found the footage unsettling.
engagement. Johns maintained close relationships with the leaderships of resistance movements challenging Soviet-backed governments in Afghanistan, Angola, Mozambique, Nicaragua and other nations, sometimes mitigating these resistance movements concerns with Washington, sometimes carrying their messages to key Reagan administration officials. Johns was influential and heavily engaged in securing U.S. foreign policy, in which the U.S.
intelligence findings on Saddam Hussein s weapons of mass destruction to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He is a regular guest on several Sirius Satellite Radio shows, including the late Ron Silver s Indie Talk show. In addition to his industry, government and public policy roles, Johns authors a political blog.
On May 15, 1997, in a major reversal of the long-standing U.S. As of August 2007, his blog ranked highly, among the top 0.5 percent of all blogs on the World Wide Web in terms of total readership, according to the blog index Technorati. Johns resides currently in Deptford, New Jersey and Emmaus, Pennsylvania. .
Ritter, a conservative Republican from Pennsylvania. coastal waters and in the oil-rich portion of Alaska s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, known as ANWR. Johns is one of several national leaders of the U.S.
Johns has countered that the U.S. conservatives and other political leaders who, since the September 11, 2001 attacks, have criticized the U.S.
was influential and did not meet with critical reception because Johns has for many years been a voluble critic of apartheid, so that it was not thought necessary to pass much time on the disavowalist rituals. Johns was an early and vocal advocate for enhanced U.S. energy policy, arguing that, while alternative energy sources such as ethanol may hold long-term usefulness in meeting some or all U.S.
He also attended Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Johns has served with global pharmaceutical corporation Eli Lilly, in the health care practice of a Philadelphia consulting firm and as vice president of Gentiva Health Services, a Long Island-based Fortune 1000 corporation. Johns was a proponent of the Bush administration s 2006 launch of Medicare Part D, which expanded the federal Medicare program to cover pharmaceuticals for the elderly and chronically disabled, arguing that Medicare was spending too much on preventable hospitalizations and surgeries and too little on disease prevention and management. aid continued, and Johns returned from Angola to argue that Gorbachev s promises of new thinking in Soviet foreign policy, designed to end such proxy Third World conflicts, were absent in Angola where, Johns argued, Gorbachev was actually increasing Soviet military commitments in the Soviet-supported war against Savmibi and UNITA.
support for Savimbi. Senator Olympia Snowe, an influential moderate Republican from Maine, who Time magazine named one of the top 10 U.S.
If Mikhail Gorbachev cannot be trusted in Angola, Johns asked in 1990, can he be trusted anywhere? The Angolan conflict was ultimately subjected to multi-party international negotiations, which provided for the removal of Cuban troops from the country. In his May 7, 2007 column, Johns correctly predicted that global demand for petroleum was increasing at such a rate that the price per barrel, then selling at $65 per barrel, was likely to reach $100 per barrel before the end of 2007.
support to other resistance movements confronting Soviet-backed governments. And in such a scenario, which could yet emerge this year or next, ethanol will not be this nation s salvation. Johns appears on national and local television and radio, usually representing conservative and Republican-leaning views on public policy and politics.
Unlike earlier proponents of containment, however, the doctrine s advocates also held that the Soviet Union was overextended globally, beginning to face major opposition at home and abroad and that even one high-profile victory for these anti-communist forces was likely to expose these vulnerabilities, inspiring democratic rebellion against Soviet-supported governments around the world and within the Soviet Union itself. security that needed to be confronted.
consciously and pro-actively challenged the Soviet Union s global military engagements and alliances in Africa, Asia and Latin America in what columnist Charles Krauthammer, in a Time magazine column, first labeled the Reagan Doctrine. The doctrine, espoused by Johns and other conservative foreign policy experts, was rooted in a belief that Soviet nuclear capabilities, combined with Soviet global aggression, represented a serious, growing threat to U.S. Tea Party movement Johns has worked closely with leading American conservatives and moderates in support of numerous domestic and foreign policy initiatives.
Bush, and defended the Bush administration s military engagement in Iraq. policy in other Cold War conflicts, including in Soviet-backed Cambodia, where the U.S.
Johns was one of the few Americans granted access to the Cambodian front lines of the ANS/KPNLF resistance, and he wrote supportably of the coalition, urging the U.S. government s long-standing policy of officially denying the existence of the CIA-supported covert Secret War in Laos and to honor the thousands of Hmong who provided support to U.S.
support for a lesser known third Cambodian political and military force, a coalition of the ANS, run by Norodom Sihanouk, and the Khmer People s National Liberation Front, known as the KPNLF and then run by Son Sann. federal governmental capacities, including both houses of the United States Congress and the White House.
He was a critic of Mengistu Haile Mariam s handling of the Ethiopian famine, alleging that the famine, which took over a million Ethiopian lives, was almost entirely a product of Mengistu s government-controlled agricultural policies and the Ethiopian leader s refusal to permit the free flow of foreign assistance. Johns was in Windhoek, Namibia for that country s first independent election, and was highly supportive of expanded economic and political liberalization on the continent. Johns also gained notoriety for his willingness to urge an end to South Africa s since disbanded policy of racial segregation, known as apartheid, at a time when other U.S. Bush White House, Johns was one of several senior Bush aides who helped define and advocate some of the policies that have come to be known as compassionate conservatism, focusing on outreach to low and middle-income Americans and nontraditional Republican constituencies.
In Nicaragua, Johns visited regularly with the Nicaraguan contras, and he made several ultimately successful arguments in support of U.S. runs the risk of forgetting the magnitude of the September 11 attacks because some components of our modern culture seem to want us to forget. And we should be unsettled.
He is a member of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity, being initiated as an undergraduate student at Miami.
