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Wurmser, a [[neo-conservative]], previously served as a "special assistant" to [[John R. Bolton]] at the State Department[http://www.hargravepublishing.com/IraqWar.htm] and was a former research fellow on the Middle East at the [[American Enterprise Institute]] (AEI) [http://rightweb.irc-online.org/ind/wurmser_d/wurmser-d.php].
Wurmser has long called for the United States and Israel to work together to ''roll back'' the Ba'ath-led government in Syria. For the latter part of the 1990s, he wrote frequently to support a joint U.S.-Israeli effort to undermine then-President Hafez Assad in hopes of destroying Ba'athist rule and hastening the creation of a new order in the Levant to be dominated by "tribal, familial and clan unions under limited governments".
Indeed, it was precisely because of the strategic importance of the Levant that Wurmser advocated overthrowing Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in favor of an [[Iraqi National Congress]] (INC) closely tied to the Hashemite monarchy in Jordan.
"Whoever inherits Iraq dominates the entire Levant strategically," he wrote in one 1996 paper for the Jerusalem-based [[Institute for Advanced Strategic & Political Studies|Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies]] (IASPS). [http://www.domino.ips.org/ips%5Ceng.nsf/vwWebMainView/2573F507D7766E49C1256DC500747AF9/?OpenDocument][http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1020-10.htm]
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==Background==
Wurmser has written extensively (books and articles) on the Middle East. His credits include: [[Wall Street Journal]], Wall Street Journal Europe, [[Washington Times]], the ''[[Weekly Standard]]'', [[New Republic]], [[SAIS Review]], [[Middle East Quarterly]], [[Perspectives on Political Science]], Strategic Review, Jobs & Capital, and [[The World and I]].
