William Kristol

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Bill Kristol (2011)

William "Bill" Kristol (born December 23, 1952 in New York City ) is an American political commentator and columnist.

Kristol is the son of Gertrude Himmelfarb and her husband Irving Kristol . Like his father, he is counted among the most important protagonists of neoconservatism in the USA. Kristol is passionate about Israel and advocates the military-backed hegemony of the US worldwide and the comprehensive revision of international law ( see New World Order ).

Since 1991 he has been vehemently in favor of the disempowerment of Saddam Hussein , whom he - as he revealed in an interview with Charles Krauthammer - would have preferred to see dead rather than interned.

Life

Kristol grew up in Manhattan . The political scientist , who received his doctorate in 1979 , whose interest in political topics awoke at the age of twelve (at that time he supported Daniel Patrick Moynihan in his candidacy for the city council), completed his academic training at Harvard University (Bachelor 1973).

Like many neoconservatives, he was initially close to the Democrats ; Among other things, he supported Hubert H. Humphrey and "Scoop" Jackson in their election campaigns. Jackson was considered a proven hawk and Bellizist and was called because of his very close relationships with the largest US aviation group "Senator from Boeing "; Richard Perle was also working for the Democrats' “rightwinger's rightwinger” around the same time . In 1976 Kristol moved to the Republicans , where he was followed by many Neocons in the mid-1970s . He briefly taught politics at the University of Pennsylvania and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. From 1985 he worked during the presidency of Ronald Reagan in the US Department of Education under Secretary William Bennett , where he soon rose to the position of chief of staff. After the election of George Bush as US President in 1988, Kristol became Chief of Staff to Vice President Dan Quayle , making him a member of the President's Executive Office . In allusion to Quayles, rhetorical and intellectual skills, often described as underdeveloped (he was by far the most caricatured and satirized politician of those years; among other things, there were parodic TV shows), the Democratic magazine The New Republic ridiculed Kristol as "Dan Quayle's Brain" .

After Bush's defeat in 1992, he became a television commentator on ABC . He was hired by Dorrance Smith, the former communications director of the rejected Bush Sr. In 1994 he turned to Rupert Murdoch with the request to publish his planned conservative magazine The Weekly Standard . In 1998, Kristol lost his job on ABC's This Week; he let himself be employed by other TV networks and started a lucrative career as a speaker. Kristol was chairman of the Project for the Republican Future from 1993 to 1994, and in 1993 he also worked for the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation in Milwaukee , which u. a. funded conservative think tanks like the American Enterprise Institute . In the second half of the 1990s, William Kristol also sat for two years on an advisory committee for the then troubled Enron Group , which was convened by the then CEO Kenneth Lay.

Kristol also co-founded and deputy director of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) along with Robert Kagan . Even before that, he had played a major role in the elaboration and formulation of the Bush doctrine, for which Paul Wolfowitz was in charge . In his contribution Toward a Neo-Reaganite Foreign Policy , published in July / August 1996 together with Kagan in the world's leading journal " Foreign Affairs " , many saw the "blueprint" of President George W. Bush's policy . In 1997 the two authors created the PNAC, which was dissolved in 2006. William Kristol founded his successor organization, the Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI), in 2009 and has been a member of its supervisory board ever since.

Kristol was against nominating Donald Trump as the Republican presidential candidate, and has criticized President Trump several times since he took office. For the presidential election he puts Kasich in position as a Republican candidate.

literature

  • Lawrence F. Kaplan, William Kristol: The War Over Iraq: Saddam's Tyranny and America's Mission. Encounter Books, 2003, ISBN 1-893554-69-4 .
  • Robert Kagan, William Kristol (Eds.): Present Dangers: Crisis and Opportunity in American Foreign and Defense Policy. Encounter Books, 2000, ISBN 1-893554-16-3 .
  • Christopher Wolfe (Ed.): Homosexuality and American Public Life. Spence Publishing Company, 1999, ISBN 1-890626-11-2 .

Web links

Wikiquote: William Kristol  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2003/03/18/bill-kristol-keeping-iraq-in-the-cross-hairs/72191034-2d12-44a0-aaa1-39ecab6d9dce/?noredirect= on
  2. ↑ Toward a Neo-Reaganite Foreign Policy
  3. ↑ https://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/bill-kristol-wanders-the-wilderness-of-trump-world
  4. ↑ https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/14/bill-kristol-prepares-2020-primary-juggernaut-to-take-on-trump.html
  5. ↑ https://thehill.com/homenews/media/406790-bill-kristol-building-war-machine-seeking-candidate-to-challenge-trump-in-2020
personal data
SURNAME Kristol, William
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kristol, Bill
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American political commentator and columnist
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City