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

[Stuart Levy]

Is anyone available to go to this, happening tomorrow (Thurs.) at 7:30
at Alice Campbell Alumni Center?

Some of us talked at last weekend's AWARE demo, and I didn't find anyone
who was able to go on Thu.   Can you?

Carl suggested an informational picket.  That sounds like a great idea.

If I were there, I'd think to bring a sign saying:
  "Cohen: You Supported Invading Iraq. // Why Should We Believe You Now?"




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Subject: 	[Peace] Prominent Iraq/Iran warmonger Eliot Cohen speaking at
UIUC November 9, 2017
Date: 	Sat, 4 Nov 2017 15:39:58 -0500
From: 	Robert Naiman via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net>
Reply-To: 	Robert Naiman <naiman at justforeignpolicy.org>
To: 	peace <peace at lists.chambana.net>



The Big Stick: Military Power and American Foreign Policy in the Age of
Trump

http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/598?eventId=33283229

http://www.clinecenter.illinois.edu/news/events/cline/2017ClineSymposium/EliotCohen.aspx

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliot_A._Cohen

[...]
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.
[...]

[...]
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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Policy Director
Just Foreign Policy
www.justforeignpolicy.org <http://www.justforeignpolicy.org>
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