Liberty is our Natural Condition
Karen KwiatkowskiThe challenge facing us now, and in coming year, is about power who will have it, how it will be wielded, and to what end.
Karen Kwiatkowski
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Karen U. Kwiatkowski (born September 24, 1960) is a retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel whose assignments included duties as a Pentagon desk officer and a variety of roles for the National Security Agency. Since retiring, she has become a noted critic of the U.S. government's involvement in Iraq. Kwiatkowski is primarily known for her insider essays which denounce a corrupting political influence on the course of military intelligence leading up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003. She is currently challenging the ten-term incumbent for the 6th District of Virginia House seat. While in the Air Force, she wrote two books about U.S. policy towards Africa: African Crisis Response Initiative: Past Present and Future (US Army Peacekeeping Institute, 2000) and Expeditionary Air Operations in Africa: Challenges and Solutions (Air University Press, 2001). More recently, she has contributed or co-written several books on neoconservatism and foreign policy. She contributed to "Ron Paul: A Life of Ideas," (Variant Press, 2008) and "Why Liberty: Personal Journeys Toward Peace and Freedom" (Cobden Press, 2010). She has been featured in a number of documentaries, including "Why We Fight" http://www.sonyclassics.com/whywefight/ in 2005. She has written extensively for Lewrockwell.com since 2003 (http://www.lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski-arch.html )
Current Columns and Articles
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What 2014 Holds in Store for Us
• Magazine Article Karen Kwiatkowski2013 is over, and I’m in the large group of people who are sort of glad to see it go. But in terms of liberty and technology, it was a great year! 2013 was also the year that a vast new majority of Americans turned their back on the overseas military
What 2014 Holds in Store for Us
Karen Kwiatkowski2013 is over, and I’m in the large group of people who are sort of glad to see it go. But in terms of liberty and technology, it was a great year! 2013 was also the year that a vast new majority of Americans turned their back on the overseas milita
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Farm Life and the Next Generation
• Magazine Article Karen KwiatkowskiWe aren’t solving a complex problem, per se. But what we are doing, for ourselves and for our children and the grandchildren I have been blessed with in just the past five years, is observable, if not measurable.
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Advice for Our Children, Circa 2012
• Magazine Article Karen KwiatkowskiIf liberty is the natural orientation of mankind, then we can trust that our children and grandchildren will turn to that light, seek the warmth of freedom, and always resent their chains.
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Rebellion, Resistance, Renewal … or War?
• Magazine Article Karen KwiatkowskiIt occurs to me that when we speak of war, we often confuse justifiable resistance of people to evil with the propaganda-driven fiascos pursued by governments in order to consolidate or expand power, or to satisfy the corporate demands placed on poli
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A Year to Wake Up!
• Magazine Article Karen KwiatkowskiMy sense is that 2012 will be a year of learning, of realizing, of waking up.
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All I Want For Christmas…
• Magazine Article Karen KwiatkowskiThere’s a fine juxtaposition between Thanksgiving and Christmas here in the United States. We’ve just celebrated – in food and in service – all that we have, all that we cherish and that for which we are truly undeserving.
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Health Care Freedom – Are We There Yet?
• Magazine Article Karen KwiatkowskiLike a long trip we may remember from childhood, Americans are wondering when the federal health care trip we are on will be over.
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Got Attitude?
• Magazine Article Karen KwiatkowskiAn ability to adapt, for our youngest little “citizens” means to adapt to arbitrary rules of not only parents, but policemen, teachers, government workers, and even international do-gooders.
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What Would Jefferson Think?
• Magazine Article Karen KwiatkowskiAmerica celebrates Independence Day with many flags and no reflection. We refer to the day as July 4th rather than Independence Day, and rightfully so.
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Predicting the Future in the Middle East
• Magazine Article Karen KwiatkowskiSeduced by the soothing intravenous drip of socialism at home, and swaddled in an unresolvable debt that Congress has denied and forgotten, the thoughts of the U.S. political class turn to … wait for it ... the rest of the world.
Open Letter to Mark Hinkle, Libertarian Party National Chair
Karen KwiatkowskiYour email to me on March 30, 2011 expressed concern that in a speech I gave a few days ago, I criticized the Libertarian Party for becoming associated with pro-war rhetoric, and not sticking to libertarian principles.
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Got Attitude?
• Magazine Article Karen KwiatkowskiWhat makes a person successful hasn’t changed much over time. Successful people have ability to learn, to adapt, to communicate and to work hard.
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