Rosa Brooks, not just another Leftist

Obama’s Latest Radical at the Defense Department By: John Perazzo
FrontPageMagazine.com | Tuesday, May 12, 2009

On April 9^th, op-ed columnist and Georgetown University law professor Rosa Brooks penned her final piece for the Los Angeles Times, the newspaper for which she had written on a regular basis since 2005. Her gig at the Times served as a nice steppingstone to a bigger and better professional frontier, namely her recent appointment by President Barack Obama to be an advisor to Michelle Fluornoy, the U.S. Undersecretary of Defense for Policy. “At this moment in history,” Brooks gushes, “I can’t imagine anything more rewarding than being part of the new team that’s shaping U.S. policy.”

Brooks’ credentials as a far-leftist are impeccable.

For one, she is the daughter of author Barbara Ehrenreich, the Honorary Chairwoman of the Democratic Socialists of America who has lauded Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto.

In 2004 Brooks served as a foreign-policy advisor to the John Kerry-John Edwards presidential campaign.

She also has been a special counsel to the president at George Soros’ Open Society Institute, which donates scores of millions of dollars annually to groups promoting open borders, a dramatic expansion of the welfare state, and the notion that America is institutionally an oppressive, imperialistic country.

She was a consultant for Human Rights Watch, which reflexively blames the U.S. and Israel for the lion’s share of international disputes around the world.

She was a board member of Amnesty International USA, which likewise finds fault with virtually every American foreign-policy decision....

With Defense Department officials like this, who is a bigger threat to our security, Our Government or the Terrorist?