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Institutional
Affiliations
Project
for the New American Century: Signatory
to April 3, 2002 letter to President Bush calling for Saddam Hussein's
ouster and increased support for Israel.
Noel
Foundation:
Executive Board
The Princeton
Review: Advisory Board
Freedom
House: Secretary of Board of Trustees
Shakespeare
Theater of Washington, D.C. Board
American
Committee for Peace in Chechnya: Member
International
Crisis Group: Board of Trustees
Fox News: Guest commentator
American
Refugee Committee:
Former oard member
Institute
for Contemporary Studies: Former vice president
RAND:
Member, Transition 2001 Panel
Committee
on the Present Danger: Former member, executive committee
Government
Service
Defense
Policy Board:
Current member
White
House Forum on the Role of Science and Technology in Promoting National
Security and Global Stability: Chair, March 29-30, 1995
Vice President
Dan Quayle: Adviser for Quayle-Gore debate preparation team,
1992
Arms Control
and Disarmament Agency: Director, 1983-87
U.S. Team
on annual arms control discussions with China: Leader, 1983-86
Department
of State: Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations,
1981-83
Department
of Defense: Assistant to the Secretary of Defense, 1976-77
Corporate
Connections/Business Interests
Commodore
Applied Technologies:
former Vice Chairman and Executive Vice President
Keppler
Associates, Inc.: Speaker
Grabow
& Associates, Inc.: Speaker
Movers
and Shakespeares: Cofounder with wife, Carol Adelman
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Highlights
& Quotes
Ken
Adelman, a consummate Washington insider and current member of the
Pentagon's Defense Policy Board, has been involved in a number of
key right-wing policy efforts dating back to the 1970s, when he
was a member of the Committee on the Present Danger. More recently,
he strongly supported the war in Iraq and took part in in the pro-war
lobbying campaign of the Project for the New American Century.
In
a 2002 article titled "The Ankle Biters," Adelman lambasted Arab
countries for their criticism of U.S. Middle East policy, writing:
"Before criticizing us, Arabs should read the U.N.'s 'Arab Human
Development Report,' . and realize they have no grounds to criticize
successful societies. . With a collective population roughly that
of the United States, the 22 Arab states have: - a total GDP less
than Spain's, with exports (without oil) less than Norway's, and
per capita income less than one-sixth that of Western democracies,
.no visible presence in the main arenas of human excellence today
- Nobel-prize winners, World Cup finalists, Olympic medal-winners,
breakthrough scientists, leading historians, international business
tycoons; . no civil or political rights of a democracy or decent
society. . These are the hallmarks of a declining civilization.
. Arab leaders lack standing to criticize America as No. 1." (6)
Adelman's
predictions on the war with Iraq:
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"Kenneth Adelman said these weapons are likeliest to be found near
Tikrit and Baghdad, 'because they're the most protected places with
the best troops. I have no doubt we're going to find big stores
of weapons of mass destruction." (25)
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"I believe that demolishing Hussein's military power and liberating
Iraq would be a cakewalk. . This President Bush does not need to
amass rinky-dink nations as 'coalition partners' to convince the
Washington establishment that we're right." (26)
In
a 1990 review of Adelman's book, The Great Universal Embrace (1989),
arms control expert Michael Krepon wrote: "Adelman cites Reagan's
unshakable support for abolishing nuclear weapons, and chides his
National Security Council colleagues for not trying to disabuse
the president from what he considers to be a silly and dangerous
notion. Others would add Reagan's cherished notions on strategic
defenses, but on this score, Adelman continues to profess true belief.
. . . Adelman acknowledges the cynicism behind the Reagan administration's
verification proposals (anywhere/anytime inspections without a right
of refusal) for the draft treaty to abolish chemical weapons. 'This
seemingly nifty approach,' he writes,'had one slight problem--we
could not live with it.' When the Soviets unexpectedly called the
U.S. bluff, the administration had to 'search for other grounds
for stalling.' Adelman promoted this treaty, which he opposed, because
it was 'the only real way of enticing Congress to fund the chemical
weapons program we needed.' The reasons for such candor are puzzling.
Adelman is heavily implicated when he cites Shakespeare: 'What tangled
webs we do weave when first we practice to deceive,' yet there is
none of the master dramatist's sense of reckoning or balancing of
accounts. Presumably, it is harmless to advance unacceptable proposals
as long as arms reduction agreements are avoided." (28)
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