Rice Picks Neo-Con Champion of Iraq War as Counselor

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http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0303-02.htm

Rice Picks Neo-Con Champion of Iraq War as Counselor
by Jim Lobe


WASHINGTON - In a move that has surprised many foreign policy analysts here, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has appointed a prominent neo-conservative hawk and leading champion of the Iraq war to the post of State Department Counselor.


"I'm pretty grim. I think we're heading for a very dark world."Eliot A. Cohen


Eliot A. Cohen, who teaches military history at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) here and has also served on the Pentagon's Defence Policy Board (DPB) since 2001, will take up the position next month that was left vacant late last year by Rice's long-time confidant and "realist" thinker, Philip Zelikow.

A close friend and protege of former Secretary of Defence Paul Wolfowitz and advisory board member of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), Cohen most recently led the harsh neo-conservative attack on the bipartisan Iraq Study Group (ISG), co-chaired by former Secretary of State James Baker and former Democratic Rep. Lee Hamilton.

Like his fellow-neo-cons, he was particularly scathing about its recommendations for Washington to directly engage Syria and Iran and revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process -- recommendations which Rice herself has explicitly endorsed in the last few weeks.

"This is a group composed, for the most part, of retired eminent public officials, most with limited or no expertise in the waging or study of war," Cohen wrote in column entitled "No Way to Win a War", published by the Wall Street Journal the day after the ISG released its report in early December.

"A fatuous process yields, necessarily, fatuous results," he went on in a wholesale dismissal of the relevance of what he called the "Washington establishment whose wisdom was exaggerated in its heyday, and which has in any event succumbed to a kind of political-intellectual entropy since the 1960s..."

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[Monkeyman]

1. Did anyone think she wouldn't

[KoKo]

2. Oh My! She's really Desperate...or is it she's close to Captain of Titanic?

:eyes:

[arewenotdemo]

3. Ah, yes. Elliot Cohen, another quintessential Chickenhawk.

And expert in the study of war.

He should hang along with his fellow scum/protege Wolfowitz.