Rudy’s braintrust
[it would be really horrible if Rudy became president]
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/08/hbc-90001048
Pipes Joins Up With Giuliani
Washington Babylon Ken Silverstein
August 28, 2007
Add another neoconservative adviser on the Middle East to an already
impressive roster–Daniel Pipes signed on with Rudy Giuliani’s
campaign today. I’d heard Pipes was advising Giuliani and asked him
about it yesterday. He told me by e-mail that he had “close relations
with several people in the campaign,” but said that he did not have
“official connection to it.” He e-mailed back just now to say that,
as of today, he has officially signed up with the campaign.
I think it’s fair to say that Pipes is even further out ideologically
than Norman Podhoretz, another Giuliani adviser. Readers unfamiliar
with Pipes can check out his profile at Wikipedia. For a
representative sampling of his work, consider a 2006 article he wrote
in the Jerusalem Post (not available online):
Iraq’s plight is neither a coalition responsibility nor a particular
danger to the West. Fixing Iraq is neither the coalition’s
responsibility, nor its burden. When Sunni terrorists target Shi’ites
and vice versa, non-Muslims are less likely to be hurt. Civil war in
Iraq, in short, would be a humanitarian tragedy, but not a strategic
one.