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government. With the return of such highly qualified, skilled and principled
men and women to high office in the U.S. government, the Center for
Security Policy looks forward to playing a new and, we hope, even more
influential role in the years ahead. To be sure, the Center will remain a
source for ideas, information and recommendations associated with promoting
the policies of peace through strength. The presence in government
of so many of those who broadly share the Centerʹs commitment to this
philosophy - and who have, over the years, helped us in advancing it -
should, however, enable the Center to direct less energy towards the inside-the-Beltway
debate and more to educating and engaging the American
people and friends of freedom around the world.” 87 Das CSP beansprucht
für sich, nicht nur eine exzeptionelle und hier mit dem AEI konkurrierende
Kaderreserve für die Regierung gewesen zu sein 88 , sondern auch Schlüsselargumente
für den Rückzug der Bush-Administration aus zahlreichen
Abrüstungs- und Rüstungskontrollabkommen wie dem ABM-Vertrag bereitgestellt
zu haben. Gesponsort wurde das CSP u.a. von den Rüstungskonzernen
Boeing und Lockheed sowie weit rechts stehenden Stiftungen.
Aus dem Milieu der Think-Tanks und politischen Aktionsgruppen ragte
schließlich vor dem Irakkrieg das 2002 von Bruce Jackson (PNAC, Lockheed)
gegründete„Committee for the Liberation of Iraq“ (CLI) heraus. Seine
explizite Zielsetzung war die Unterstützung der Kriegsoption der Regierung
Bush. Sein Board versammelte eine demonstrativ prominente Menge
Neokonservativer (wie aber auch einige andere politische Namen) und das
Projekt kann als im wesentlichen plakative Einrichtung gelten. Dem Board
87 http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/. Zu den NSAC-Mitgliedern in der Bush-Administration
gehören laut CSP-Website: Elliott Abrams, Special Assistant to the President for National Security
Affairs for Democracy, Human Rights and International Operations; Devon Gaffney Cross, Mitglied des
Defense Policy Board; J.D. Crouch, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy;
Mitchell Daniels, Director of the Office of Management and Budget; Kenneth deGraffenreid, Deputy
Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Support; Paula Dobriansky, Under Secretary of State for Global
Affairs; Douglas J. Feith, früher Chairman of the Centerʹs Board of Directors, Under Secretary of Defense
for Policy; Evan Galbraith, Secretary of Defenseʹs Representative to Europe; Robert Joseph, Special
Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs for Proliferation Strategy, Counterproliferation
and Homeland Defense; Sven Kraemer, Policy Advisor to the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy;
Keith Payne, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Forces Policy; Richard Perle, vormals Chairman
of the Defense Policy Board; Roger W. Robinson, Jr., Commissioner, U.S.-China Security Review Commission;
James Roche, Secretary of the Air Force; William Schneider, Chairman of the Defense Science
Board; Wayne Schroeder, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Resource Planning and Management;
Michelle Van Cleave, Assistant Secretary of Defense-designate for Special Operations and Low Intensity
Conflict; Jose Sorzano, Mitglied des Board of Visitors, Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation
(früher die School of the Americas); Arthur Waldron, Commissioner, U.S.-China Security Review
Commission; Gov. Pete Wilson, Mitglied des Presidentʹs Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board; Dov
Zakheim, Under Secretary of Defense; Comptroller.
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S. Alain Frachon and Daniel Vernet: The Strategist and the Philosopher, in: Le Monde v. 15.4.2003: “It was said in a
tone of sincere praise: ʺYou are some of the best brains in the countryʹʹ; so good, added George W. Bush, that ʺmy
government employs twenty of youʹʹ. The President addressed the American Enterprise Institute in Washington on
February 26 (See Le Monde of March 20).”
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