Karen Kwiatkowski

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Karen Kwiatkowski is a retired Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Air Force, who writes on defense policy from a libertarian standpoint.

Before the Iraq War, she worked in Near East South Asia directorate at the Department of Defense and who , of whom she is critical. "observed firsthand the formation of the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans," wrote that she "had a clear sense that Abram Shulsky ranked high in the organization, although ostensibly he was under William Luti. ... Shulsky's real boss was somebody like Douglas Feith or higher" [1]

Frontpage Magazine, affiliated with David Horowitz and neoconservatism, calls her a "LaRouche asset." The article lumped together, as opposing the Iraq War, groups including paleoconservatives, the New Left, Michael Moore, the "Euro-Left", and ANSWER.[2]

In 2006, she described the State of Israel's operations in Gaza as carrying out the "Clean Break" strategy proposed by David Wurmser and others. [3]

Education

  • MA in Government from Harvard.
  • MS in Science Management from the University of Alaska.
  • Completed both Air Command and Staff College and the Naval War College seminar programs.
  • Ph.D. in World Politics from Catholic University of America.

References

  1. Karen Kwiatkowski (March 10, 2004), "The New Pentagon Papers", Salon.com
  2. Anthony Gancarski (6 August 2004), "The Old Right/Hate America Left Connection", Frontpage Magazine
  3. Karen Kwiatkowski (15 July 2006), "Israel Makes Its 'Clean Break'", AntiWar.com