David Frum

David Frum is a Candadian American neoconservative who, while serving as Bush's speech writer, is reputed to have inspired the prhase "Axis of Evil" (Frum suggested "Axis of Hatred", which was changed by lead speechwriter Michael Gerson). A longtime member of the American Enterprise Institute, he went on to found FrumForum after being fired from the neoconservative thinktank. In the leadup to the Iraq war, he called for the expulsion of antiwar voices from the conservative movement. He is married to Danielle Crittenden, stepdaughter of the former Toronto Sun editor, who is also a contributor to FrumForum.

Views

On antiwar conservatives:

The antiwar conservatives aren't satisfied merely to question the wisdom of an Iraq war...But the antiwar conservatives have gone far, far beyond the advocacy of alternative strategies. They have made common cause with the left-wing and Islamist antiwar movements in this country and in Europe...The websites of the antiwar conservatives approvingly cite and link to the writings of John Pilger, Robert Fisk, Noam Chomsky, Ted Rall, Gore Vidal, Alexander Cockburn, and other anti-Americans of the far Left.

The Canadian-born-and-raised Frum concluded:

They began by hating the neoconservatives. They came to hate their party and this president. They have finished by hating their country.

War is a great clarifier. It forces people to take sides. The paleoconservatives have chosen — and the rest of us must choose too. In a time of danger, they have turned their backs on their country. Now we turn our backs on them.

Affiliations

• American Enterprise Institute - former fellow
• FrumForum - Creator and editor
• Weekly Standard - Contributing editor
• International Summit on Democracy, Terrorism and Security, speaker
• Bilderberg Group - attended up to four meeitngs as a guest of disgraced media-mogul Conrad Black

connections

• Dean Godson, friend
• Richard Perle, mentor