Anyone ever here of the IASP

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The Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies (IASPS)
got an email from the International relations center today if you read it I think it sheds more light on the whole middle east an tie in with the pnac.


The Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies (IASPS) is a Jerusalem-based think tank, with a Washington office, founded in 1984 by Robert Loewenberg. During the lead-up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the little-known institute gained public attention thanks to a study it had put out in 1996, entitled “A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm.” The paper's recommendations pressed Israel's then-incoming Likud government to scrap the peace process in favor of a hardline posture aimed at attacking states like Syria and Iraq. Because two of its contributors, Douglas Feith and Richard Perle, years later obtained high-level posts with the George W. Bush administration, commentators cited the paper's authorship as evidence that the Bush administration was full of hawkish Mideast experts who were determined to remake the region.

So sensitive was the administration to media reports connecting “A Clean Break” and Bush officials that in 2004, Feith, then serving in the Pentagon, responded to a Washington Post article about the paper by writing a letter to the editor in which he denied direct authorship. He wrote: “David Wurmser, as the group's rapporteur, drafted the report more, here http://rightweb.irc-online.org/rw/3508

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1. Interesting.

I did not know of this group. You may want to email this info to Paul Thompson. I don't know if he'd be interested or not. Maybe cooperative research should start a PNAC timeline.