Bloomberg reports:
Paul Wolfowitz, the former World Bank president and former deputy secretary of defense who was instrumental in the US decision to invade Iraq in 2003, has been named chairman of a panel that advises the State Department on arms-control issues. Wolfowitz, now a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, will head Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's International Security Advisory Board, the State Department said yesterday in a statement. "The ISAB provides the Department of State with a source of independent insight, advice, and innovation on all aspects of arms control, disarmament, nonproliferation, political-military issues, and international security and related aspects of public diplomacy," the State Department said.
At a time when Rice has all but abandoned the Bush doctrine, it is a bit curious that Wolfowitz would find himself appointed to this position. Which begs the question, whose idea was this? Somebody's making trouble, and we like it. HT: ArmsControlWonk