The Hudson Institute and Foundation for the Defense of Democracies are holding a panel on the relationship between Israel and the United States 20 years after Oslo, next month. Among the speakers: Scooter Libby, Michael Oren, Elliott Abrams, Douglas Feith, Joshua Muravchik, George Gilder, Clifford May…
And as Phyllis Bennis says, “This is one crowd I’m glad has no women.”
21 participants. All male.
Neocons wax nostalgic? But they are still in charge, with Tea Party pushing from behind. The GREAT THING about POLITICS is that you can concentrate on getting your way, making your ideology prevail-in-action, and NOT WORRY about what happens to “the people”, “the environment” because NO MAJOR PARTY CARES about these and no BIG-MONEY forces are present (yet?) to do battle with all the BIG-MONEY forces that despise (or are malignantly rather than even benignly neglectful of) people and environment.
And justice. Including for Palestinians. and rule-of-law.
Shouldn’t that be “Foundation for the Protection of Elites”?
They certainly don’t seem to do much to defend democracy. More like ensuring their own places at a number of the top tables.
Amazing…what positions war criminals and felons like Libby can find for themselves to do. Shameful. More like criminal.
Where is Wolfowitz, Bolton, Perle and Pappa and Baby Doc Cheney on that list. Mev Wurmser?
You can bet their the focus will be how are we going to convince the American people that Iran is a huge threat based on our false intelligence and propaganda war against Iran.
Many of these individuals have undermined and continue to undermine US National Security. Says a great deal about our Justice system that Libby is not in prison for outing Plame. I believe John Hannah
Maybe Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson will attend.
John Hannah
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/02/politics/02aide.html?pagewanted=print
“One of the titles held by Mr. Libby, that of Mr. Cheney’s national security adviser, will not fall to Mr. Addington but to John P. Hannah, a foreign policy aide whose ties to the vice president are less deeply rooted.
Mr. Hannah has worked for Mr. Cheney since 2001, but he began his career in Washington as a protégé of Dennis B. Ross, the former Middle East peace negotiator. Mr. Ross taught Mr. Hannah at Stanford University, and later took him to the State Department, under the first President Bush, when Mr. Ross was director of policy planning.
Mr. Hannah later served at the State Department under Warren M. Christopher, where he worked with Thomas E. Donilon, who was Mr. Christopher’s chief of staff. Under Mr. Bush, Mr. Hannah worked closely with Mr. Libby in preparing a draft of a speech for Secretary of State Colin L. Powell that laid out the Bush administration’s rationale for war against Iraq.”
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Vice Squad
From our May issue: They terrorize other government officials, and they’re so secretive that their names aren’t even revealed to a harmless federal employee directory. And they’ve helped ruin the country. Meet Dick Cheney’s staff.
http://prospect.org/cs/articles?articleId=11423
“Then John Hannah intervened. A former official at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), a pro-Zionist think tank founded by the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee, Hannah is a neoconservative ideologue who, after the resignation of Irving Lewis “Scooter” Libby, moved up to become Vice President Dick Cheney’s top adviser on national security.
Hannah moved instantly to undermine Abdullah’s influence. Not only should the United States not deal with Hamas, but Abbas, Fatah, and the entire Palestinian Authority were no longer relevant, he argued, according to intelligence insiders. Speaking for the vice president’s office, Hannah instead sought to align U.S. policy with the go-it-alone strategy of Israel’s hard-liners, including Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and his stricken patron and predecessor, Ariel Sharon. Olmert soon stunned observers by declaring that Israel would unilaterally set final borders in the West Bank, annexing large swaths of occupied land, by the year 2010. His declaration precisely mirrored Hannah’s argument that Israel should act alone.
Whether that viewpoint will prevail in the United States is unclear, but early indications are that the Bush administration is swinging in that direction. Hannah’s intervention is typical of how the OVP staff has engaged at all levels of the U.S. policy-making process to overcome opposition from professionals in the State Department, the intelligence community, and even the National Security Council (NSC) itself.
And as Phyllis Bennis says, “This is one crowd I’m glad has no women.”
here’s a good interlink publishing link for bennis.
phil, there’s no reference at your link to bennis saying this. did you overhear it?
Was wondering where Wolfowitz was when I saw the line up for this panel. One war criminal looking for another war criminal.
Gadhafi Must Still Be Captured
As long as he’s at large he can cause trouble for the new government.
BY PAUL WOLFOWITZ
The liberation of Tripoli was a great victory for the Libyan freedom fighters and their leadership—as well as their NATO and Arab allies—but it has not ended the fight for the country. Even when pro-Gadhafi forces are driven out of Sirte and Bani Walid the conflict might continue, as it did in Afghanistan and Iraq after the liberation of Kabul and Baghdad. Forces allied to the former regime could still threaten a new government by using guerilla and terrorist tactics.
Gadhafi has long since rejected the idea of a comfortable retirement in Venezuela or Belarus. It would be a mistake …