Rudi Giuliani, has named seven more people, including four prominent neo-conservatives, to his already-neocon-dominated foreign policy team.

More Neo-Cons for Giuliani

Republican presidential candidate and current front-runner, Rudi Giuliani, has named seven more people, including four prominent neo-conservatives, to his already-neocon-dominated foreign policy team. The neo-conservatives include Ruth Wedgwood of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies; “terrorism analyst” and free-lance writer often published in the Weekly Standard and the National Review Online, Thomas Joscelyn; and two “scholars” at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and protégés of Richard Perle – Michael Rubin and David Frum (with whom Perle wrote the ultra-hawkish “An End to Evil” in 2004). Combined with such incumbent team members as Norman Podhoretz, Martin Kramer, Daniel Pipes, and Robert Kasten, the team increasingly resembles the cheer-leading squad for the U.S. section of the international Bibi Netanyahu fan club.
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In any event, Wedgwood, who worked with Perle on Rumsfeld’s Defense Policy Board and more recently published an impassioned defense of Paul Wolfowitz’s promotion of his girlfriend at the World Bank, is listed as an international law and organizations adviser, while Joscelyn, who is associated with ultra-Straussian Claremont Institute and holds a B.A. in economics from the University of Chicago, will act as Giuliani’s “senior terrorism advisor,” (presumably in place of the mayor’s old sidekick, the scandal-ridden former police commissioner, Bernard Kerik). Despite a total lack of foreign-policy-making experience, Frum, who also writes regularly for the National Review Online, will be a “senior foreign policy adviser,” while Rubin, who worked on the Iran and Iraq desks at the Pentagon under Douglas Feith before being sent to Baghdad after the invasion, will act as both the “senior Iran and Turkey Advisor,” as well as a member of the “Middle East Advisory Board.” (Like Rubin, a fifth new member of Giuliani’s team, John Agresto, also worked for Bremer’s Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) where he was assigned to rebuild the Iraqi higher education system, a job at which he reportedly failed utterly, as indicated by the name of his recent book, ‘Mugged by Reality.’ It’s comforting to note that he has been made a member of Giuliani’s “Iraqi (sic) Advisory Board.”) ...

David Wurmser: a neocon unbowed ... believe that regime change in Iran - and its proxy Syria - should be a key goal of US policy

David Wurmser: a neocon unbowed | Posted by Toby Harnden on 04 Oct 2007 at 23:33

Will the United States go to war with Iran? That's the question many here in the US and in Europe are asking as reports appear weekly of military plans and preparations. One of the best placed people to answer is David Wurmser, until very recently Vice President Dick Cheney's Middle East adviser and a notorious "neoconservative".

The caricature of Wurmser as a wild-eyed Zionist madman hell bent on fomenting conflagration in the Middle East is more than a touch far fetched. But he does believe that regime change in Iran - and its proxy Syria - should be a key goal of US policy. And, if necessary, American military power should be used to achieve it.
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On Iraq, Wurmser - a prime mover in the movement towards war in 2003 - was unrepentant, stating that "in counterfactual history one has to remember what would've happened if we hadn't done it". The effects of Saddam's demise in Libya and Lebanon, he said, had been positive while Iraq had become a magnet for al-Qa'eda, where the US was now in the process of defeating it.