Karen Kwiatkowski
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[3] proposed by David Wurmser and others. [4]
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
- ↑ Karen Kwiatkowski (March 10, 2004), "The New Pentagon Papers", Salon.com
- ↑ Anthony Gancarski (6 August 2004), "The Old Right/Hate America Left Connection", Frontpage Magazine
- ↑ Richard Perle, James Colbert, Charles Fairbanks, Jr., Douglas Feith, Robert Loewenberg, David Wurmser, and Meyrav Wurmser, A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm, "Study Group on a New Israeli Strategy Toward 2000.", The Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies
- ↑ Karen Kwiatkowski (15 July 2006), "Israel Makes Its 'Clean Break'", AntiWar.com