In Rumsfeld’s Shop A senior Air Force officer watches as the neocons consolidate their Pentagon coup. By Karen Kwaitkowski Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski recently retired from the U.S. Air Force. Her final posting was as an analyst at the Pentagon. Below is the first of three installments describing her experience there. They provide a unique view of the Department of Defense during a period of intense ideological upheaval, as the United States prepared to launch—for the first time in its history—a “preventive” war.
Part of this Post was taken from the December 01, 2003 Issue of The American Conservative. Karen Kwaitkowski had a “front row seat” to the Neo-con takeover of the Defense Department of the United States Government. Their “wars” are continuing. It’s time to End the War’s.
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Here is Karen in 2007 at the Future of Freedom Foundation’s gathering. It is a timely as if it were presented today.
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Part Two
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Part Four
Karen Kwiatkowski retired from the USAF in 2003 as a Lieutenant Colonel. She currently teaches college courses in American Government, and is currently employed as a high school biology and Earth Science teacher in western Virginia. She has an MA in Government from Harvard University, MS in Science Management from the University of Alaska, and has completed both Air Command and Staff College and the Naval War College seminar programs.
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The US Government was taken over by the Neo-con’s. Let’s End their War NOW.
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