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

[Robert Naiman]

I am willing to go, but I am not willing to go by myself.

If three other people here will commit to go, then I will go.



Robert Naiman
Policy Director
Just Foreign Policy
www.justforeignpolicy.org
naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
(202) 448-2898 x1

Co-Sponsor Khanna-Massie to #StopSaudiFamineInYemen
https://petitions.moveon.org/sign/force-vote-on-saudi-war?r_by=1135580



On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 5:01 PM, Stuart Levy via Peace-discuss <
peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

> 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?"
>
>
>
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> 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>
> <peace at lists.chambana.net>
> Reply-To: Robert Naiman <naiman at justforeignpolicy.org>
> <naiman at justforeignpolicy.org>
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>
> 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."
> [...]
>
> ===
>
> Robert Naiman
> Policy Director
> Just Foreign Policy
> www.justforeignpolicy.org
> naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
> (202) 448-2898 x1
>
> Co-Sponsor Khanna-Massie to #StopSaudiFamineInYemen
> https://petitions.moveon.org/sign/force-vote-on-saudi-war?r_by=1135580
>
>
>
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