Summary
A close friend and protégé of former Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz and advisory board member of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), Cohen most recently led the harsh neoconservative attack on the bipartisan Iraq Study Group (ISG), co-chaired by former Secretary of State James Baker and former Democratic Rep. Lee Hamilton. Cohen first gained national prominence shortly after the 9/11 attacks, when he published a Wall Street Journal column entitled "World War IV"-a moniker quickly adopted by hard-line neocons like former CIA director and fellow-DPB member James Woolsey, former Commentary editor Norman Podhoretz, and Center for Security Policy president Frank Gaffney (on whose board Cohen also sits)-to put Bush's "war on terror" in what he considered to be the appropriate historical context and to define its enemy as "militant Islam."
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Rice Picks Eliot Cohen, Neocon Champion of Iraq War, As Counselor
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.
Eliot A. Cohen, who teaches military history at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, DC and has also served on the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board (DPB) since 2001, will take up the positio...See the full content of this document
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