War critic appointed Rice adviser

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice named Eliot Cohen to be State
Department counselor. The
appointment of Cohen, a neoconservative who
teaches at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, was announced last Friday. Cohen will serve as a special adviser and consultant to Rice.In 2005, when his son, an Army ranger, was shipping out to Iraq ­, Cohen sharply criticized the handling of the war in
a widely cited Washington Post opinion piece. He also earned prominence last
year when he wrote in the Washington Post that a paper on the Israel lobby by
prominent academics Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer bore the hallmarks of
anti-Semitism.