He is the grand architect of the “surge”. Sure, he thought nuking North Korea was the right strategy back in the mid-90’s but that doesn’t mean that he is a warmonger…does it?
From RS:
President Bush’s new strategy for Iraq was crafted by a little known aide who is a strong advocate of escalating the troops and who alarmed Democrats over a decade ago when he proposed attacking North Korea with nuclear weapons to stop its nuclear programme, the Wall Street Journal reports.
“When President Bush addresses the nation tomorrow night, the strategies he offers for Iraq will represent months of work by J.D. Crouch, an academic turned deputy national security adviser,” Yochi J. Dreazen writes.
“Diplomacy in Pyongyang without military power is appeasement plain and simple,” Crouch wrote in 1995.
