Neocon Rummie Advisor Quits To Spend More Time With His Think Tanks

Peter W. Rodman has quit as assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs to join the influential Brookings Institution as a senior fellow.

Here's Rodman's profile from Right Web:

Peter Rodman, the assistant secretary of defense for international security, is a Kissinger protégé who has served in a number of Republican administrations and is a prominent figure in conservative media and think-tank worlds. Before joining the Bush administration in 2001, Rodman was a senior editor at the National Review (1991-1999), the director of national security studies at the Nixon Center, and a founding signatory of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC).

Rodman began his career in government service in 1969, when he worked as an assistant to Kissinger in the National Security Council, a position he held until 1977. In 1984, he joined the Reagan administration State Department, where he was director for policy planning until 1986. He later served as deputy assistant for national security affairs for both Reagan and George H. W. Bush.

A graduate of Harvard and Oxford, Rodman has published a number of books, essays, and articles covering national security, strategic affairs, and Cold War history. He is the author of More Precious than Peace—a history of the Cold War in the Third World—and of a series of monographs on strategic issues published by the Nixon Center. In More Precious than Peace, Rodman recalled that when he was serving in the State Department under Secretary George Shultz, “the Heritage Foundation unleashed a full-scale attack on Shultz in the fall of 1985, accusing him of betraying Reagan’s policies.” He also contributed a chapter on Russia for Present Dangers, a 2000 PNAC volume that was edited by William Kristol and Robert Kagan.

In a 1999 essay for Freedom House titled Multilateralism and Its Discontents, Rodman argued that despite the benefits of a multilateral approach to global affairs, in the future the United States “will be forced more and more to choose between its convictions on what is essential to spare the Middle East from weapons of mass destruction in the hands of Saddam Hussein, on the one hand, and deference to the more assertive resistance of other major powers that either do not share the U.S. alarm or are driven by other motives. Iraq may turn out to be multilateralism’s last hurrah.”

Rodman concluded that “the key to multilateralism is not what one thinks of the United Nations but what one thinks of the United States. Those who believe the United States guilty of too many sins in the past—and these include some Americans—will be eager to see restraints on American unilateral action. Those who believe that global freedom and peace and the cause of human rights have more often than not been advanced if not sustained by the United States, acting out of some combination of its own self-interest and a general interest, will find multilateralism a potential source of paralysis.”

And he already has plenty to keep him moneyed occupied in addition to the Brookings Institution. He's a trustee of Freedom House and Vice President of the World Affairs Council as well as co-founder (along with Ken Timmerman) of the noxiously warmongering Foundation for Democracy In Iran.

The incompetent fantasists who wormtongued America into the misadventure in Iraq will not, it seems, fade away. They will just get lucrative jobs with think-tanks.