David Wurmser
David Wurmser, a neo-conservative, is a "special assistant" to John R. Bolton at the State Department[1] and a research fellow on the Middle East at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI).
Wurmser has written extensively (books and articles) on the Middle East. His credits include: Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal Europe, Washington Times, Weekly Standard, New Republic, SAIS Review, Middle East Quarterly, Perspectives on Political Science, Strategic Review, Jobs & Capital, and The World and I.
He was director of Research in Strategy and Politics Program at the Institute for Advanced Strategic & Political Studies (96), director of Institutional Grants at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (94-96), and project officer at the United States Institute of Peace (88-94).
David Wurmser is married to Meyrav Wurmser.
Wurmser is a close friend and political ally at the AEI with Richard N. Perle. Perle wrote the introduction to Wurmser's book "Tyranny's Ally: America's Failure to Defeat Saddam Hussein." [2]
Affiliations
- Fellow, American Enterprise Institute (current)
- Research Fellow, American Institute for Public Policy Research (AIPPR), December 20, 2000[3]
- Director of Research in Strategy and Politics Program, Institute for Advanced Strategic & Political Studies (Jerusalem) (1996)[4]
- Director of Institutional Grants, Washington Institute for Near East Policy (1994-96)[5]
- Project Officer, United States Institute of Peace (1988-94)[6]
The following comes from Campus Watch: "Perspective: Who funds whom?" by Jill Junnola (Energy Compass, October 4, 2002):
"A book written in 1999 by David Wurmser, now special assistant to John Bolton, undersecretary of state for arms control--the man responsible for labeling Syria, Libya, and Cuba as a secondary 'axis of evil' earlier this year--appears to lay out the rationale for war on Iraq, as well as the pressing need to reassert US influence in the Middle East.
"In Tyranny's Ally: America's Failure to Defeat Saddam Hussein, Wurmser--whose previous homes have included the AEI and the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, founded in part with money from the America Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac), which describes itself as 'America's pro-Israel lobby'--wrote: 'Recognizing that sanctions cannot be permanently imposed on Iraq and lacking a plan to overthrow Saddam's regime, many of our Middle Eastern allies and other, global powers have determined that Saddam will eventually prevail in this conflict. Consequently they have reversed their policy, seeking now to nurture ties with Baghdad.'
"In other words, if Saddam stays, the Middle East will tilt toward him, and away from the US. For the neocons, with their strong ties to Israel, that is not a good thing. Neither would it be good for the US arms industry, nor for the oil or chemical companies that in some cases help fund the neocons."
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External links
Articles / Publications by David Wurmser
Other Links
- America Attacked: The Middle East. With David Wurmser, Director of Middle East studies for the American Enterprise Institute, Live Online Interview with The Washington Post, September 24, 2001.
