[Peace] Prominent Iraq/Iran warmonger Eliot Cohen speaking at UIUC November 9, 2017

[Carl G. Estabrook]

Perhaps an informational picket with a leaflet describing Cohen’s crimes?


> On Nov 4, 2017, at 3:39 PM, Robert Naiman via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
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> The Big Stick: Military Power and American Foreign Policy in the Age of Trump
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> http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/598?eventId=33283229 <http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/598?eventId=33283229>
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> http://www.clinecenter.illinois.edu/news/events/cline/2017ClineSymposium/EliotCohen.aspx <http://www.clinecenter.illinois.edu/news/events/cline/2017ClineSymposium/EliotCohen.aspx>
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliot_A._Cohen <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliot_A._Cohen>
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> In 1997, Cohen co-founded the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), which was a center for prominent neoconservatives. He has been a member of the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee, a committee of civilians and retired military officers that the U.S. Secretary of Defense may call upon for advice, that was instituted during the administration of President George W. Bush. He was put on the board after acquaintance Richard Perle put forward his name.[5] Cohen has referred to the War on Terrorism as “World War IV”.[6] In the run-up to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq, he was a member of Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, a group of prominent persons who pressed for an invasion.
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> Cohen was one of the first neoconservatives to publicly advocate war against Iran and Iraq. In a November 2001 op-ed for The Wall Street Journal, Cohen identified what he called World War IV and advocated the overthrow of Iran's government as a possible next step for the Bush Administration. Cohen claimed "regime change" in Iran could be accomplished with a focus on "pro-Western and anticlerical forces" in the Middle East and suggested that such an action would be "wise, moral and unpopular (among some of our allies)". He went on to argue that such a policy was as important as the then identified goal of Osama Bin Laden's capture: "The overthrow of the first theocratic revolutionary Muslim state and its replacement by a moderate or secular government, however, would be no less important a victory in this war than the annihilation of bin Laden."
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