Pletka is your typical neo-con: a phony intellectual, as most of the AEI fellows are; like David Frum and Natan Sharansky, she's foreign born and yet in a position to influence American foreign policy, but I guess that's OK if she's a neo-con from Australia rather than one of those pesky realists or institutionalists from France of Germany; she's a former Jesse Helms staffer; no military service (surprise, surprise); an apologist for Ahmed Chalabi, even to this day; and she's one of those prissy neo-cons who goes on TV to whine that we are still not spending enough on the military and to talk up a war with Syria, North Korea and Iran. She may yet be appointed to a post in the Bush Administration sometime in the next four years.
http://www.aei.org/scholars/scholarID.50,filter.all/scholar.asphttp://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Danielle_Pletkahttp://www.mail-archive.com/sam11@erols.com/msg00327.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29011-2004Nov5.html