MIA is a patriot, having served his homeland for decades, with distinction.
MIA is a prominent human rights activist, and peace activist, having tirelessly worked for peace with numerous humanitarian organizations, such as:
- The Soros Open Society Institute (Board of Trustees; with George Soros, Stewart Paperin, Laura Silber, Stephen Gutmann, Leon Botstein, David Rothman, John Simon, Jonathan Soros, etc.)
- The Council of Foreign Relations (co-chair of the 1999 Independent Task Force on”Reconstructing the Balkans” ["the regions [sic] of Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Albania, Croatia, and Rumania”] — from MIA’s report: “The region will enjoy a lasting peace only if all its states leave the past behind and move decidedly to join the wider community.” — strange … I thought Yugoslavia was “a wider community” …; The Center for Preventive Action’s Independent Task Force on the Balkans 2010)
- Human Rights Watch
- The Century Foundation (Senior Fellow; with Kenneth Duberstein, John Podesta, David Aaron, Margaret Hamburg, Richard Kahlenberg, Daniel Levy, Jessica Tuchman Mathews, Lewis Kaden, Nancy Soderberg, Tova Andrea Wang, etc.)
- The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (former president; with James C. Gaither, Bill Bradley, Jerry Cohen, Richard Debs, Susan Eisenhower, Leslie Gelb, Jamie Gorelick, Stephen Lewis, Jessica Tuchman Mathews, Zanny Minton Beddoes, Strobe Talbott, Robert Kagan, Sherman Katz, Albert Keidel, Masha Lipman, Jessica Tuchman Mathews, Moisés Naím, David Rothkopf, Robert Kagan, etc.)
- The U.S. State Department (former Ambassador to Turkey; former assistant secretary of state for intelligence and research)
- The National Endowment for Democracy (former director; with Wesley Clark, Evan Bayh, Francis Fukuyama, Lee H. Hamilton (911 Commission), Richard C. “Hal” Holbrooke, Michael Novak, Paula Dobriansky, etc)
- The American Committee for Peace in Chechnya (Board of Directors; with William Kristol, Michael Ledeen, Elliott Abrams, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Eliot Cohen, Norman Podhoretz, Moishe Pripstein, Tatiana Yankelevich, Kenneth Adelman, Audrey L. Alstadt, Leonard R. Sussman, George Weigel, Caspar Weinberger, Joshua Muravchik, Richard Perle, Marshall Goldman, Alexander Haig, Irving Louis Horowitz, Robert Kagan, Max Kampelman, Richard Pipes, Robert Lieber, S. Frederick Starr, Richard Gere, Seymour Lipset, Peter Rosenblatt, Philip Siegelman, David Saperstein, Gary Schmitt, William Schneider, Alexey Semyonov, Andrew Sessler, Stephen Solarz, James Woolsey, Larry Diamond, Sandra Feldman, Geraldine Ferraro, Erwin Friedlander, Frank Gaffney, Douglas Ginsburg, Harry Kopp, Jan Nowak)
- The International Crisis Group (for Bosnia and Kosovo; co-founder, and member of the Senior executive Committee; fellow ICG-ers: Chris Patten, Stephen Solarz, George Soros, Kenneth Adelman, Shlomo Ben-Ami, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Kim Campbell, Wesley Clark, Joschka Fischer, Leslie H. Gelb, etc.; MIA: “The sight of Slobodan Milosevic being tried for war crimes in the Hague may suggest that we have reached the end of history, Balkans-style.”)
- The Balkan Action Committee (ex-Committee for the Present Danger; with Zbigniew Brzezinski, Elie Wiesel, Max Kampelman, Saul Bellow, Paul Wolfowitz, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Ron Lehman, John O’Sullivan, Richard Perle, Eugene Rostow, Donald Rumsfeld, Stephen Solarz, Helmut Sonnenfeldt, Geraldine Ferraro, Paula Dobriansky, Michael Lerner (Tikkun), etc.)
- Freedom House (present and former Illuminaries: Peter Ackerman, Stuart Eizenstat, Walter Schloss, Max Kampelman, Bette Bao Lord, Kenneth Adelman, Bernard Aronson, Malcolm Steve Forbes, Theodore Forstmann, Henry Louis Gates, Jay Mazur, Andrew Nathan, Nina Rosenwald, David Rubenstein, Eleanor Roosevelt, Paula Dobriansky, James Woolsey, Kenneth Adelman, Max Kampelman, Peter Ackerman, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Stuart Eizenstat, Sandra Feldman, Malcolm Forbes, Samuel Huntington, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Anthony Lake, P.J. O’Rourke, Bill Richardson, etc.)
- Intellibridge (with David J. Rothkopf, Anthony Lake, Richard C. “Hal” Holbrooke, Henry Kissinger, John Mark Deutch, Lawrence Korb, Joseph Samuel Nye, Jr., Stephen Solarz, Peter Tarnoff, etc.; subsumed into Eurasia)
- The International Rescue Committee (with Madeleine Albright, Maurice R. Greenberg, Henry Kissinger, Tom Lantos, Elie Wiesel, Reynold Levy, David N. Pincus, Colin Powell, Bruce Ratner, Felix Rohatyn, Nancy Starr, Jonathan L. Wiesner, James Wolfensohn, Guy, Morton Hamburg, Jessica Seinfeld, Howard Jonas, Marvin Josephson, Alton Kastner, H. Peter Stern, W. Michael Blumenthal, William vanden Heuvel, Ronald Waldman, Leah Zell Wanger, Daniel Weiner, Randi Weingarten, etc.)
- The National Interest (with Conrad Black, Irving Kristol, Helmut Sonnenfeldt, etc.)
- The Synagogue of Satan
MIA delivered Stinger missiles to the Mujahidin in Afghanistan.
MIA represented the Albanian Islamic terrorist group UCK and Bosnia’s Iranian-U.S.-Saudi-backed militias against the Serbs in the former Yugoslavia.
MIA campaigns for the Chechens against Russia.
MIA arranged for Turkey to receive $6,000,000,000 “and unspecified additional billions in loans” from American tax-payers in exchange for the use of Turkish territory for the invasion of Iraq. MIA also guaranteed Turkey that America would deny Iraqi Kurds any national self-determination.
MIA is married to Sheppie Abramowitz, director of the Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children.
Diana Johnstone, Fool’s Crusade, Pluto Press, 2002, p. 9:
… Presidents come and go but the continuity of U.S. policy is ensured by a small elite of policy-makers who remain outside party politics – and often outside public view. An influential member of this foreign policy establishment is Morton Abramowitz, whose career has involved him with both the Afghan mujahidin and Kosovo Albanian rebels. In 1986, as assistant secretary of state for intelligence and research in the Reagan administration, Abramowitz helped arrange delivery of the Stinger missiles. The collapse of the Soviet Union obliged U.S. policy-makers to redefine the “threat” justifying foreign intervention. The “war on terrorism”, launched by President Reagan in the early 1980s, was suffering by the end of the decade from a dearth of active terrorists. As president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in the early 1990s, Abramowitz headed a project to develop a new U.S. foreign policy for the post-Cold War era. Rather than simply identifying “threats”, especially at a time when few threats could be seen, a successful new policy needed to combine promotion of U.S. interests with proclamation of American “ideals”.
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Abramowitz continued to act from behind the scenes as an eminence grise for [US Secretary of State] Albright. He helped found the high-level International Crisis Group, a chief policy designer fro Bosnia and Kosovo. He was omnipresent behind the scenes of the Kosovo drama, both in making policy and in shaping elite business, government, and media opinion. He acted as an advisor to the Kosovo Albanian delegation at the Rambouillet talks, whose programmed breakdown provided the pretext for NATO bombing.
