The White House has announced its intention to nominate John Rood as Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Non-Proliferation. (The Arizona Republic has a full writeup.)
Of course, you may remember Rood from his starring turn in Dafna Linzer’s “Brady Bunch NSC” article:
Much of Rood’s job includes dealing with Cold War leftovers such as the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, a decades-old arms control agreement between Washington and Moscow, which Rood spent his first year in the White House dismantling. “We had all sorts of quotes from critics that the sky would fall if we left the ABM treaty, and no one even mentions this anymore because nothing happened—it went away with a whimper. Not being encumbered with all this baggage from the Cold War is a huge advantage.”
If I could give Mr. Rood one bit of advice: Give back the Tiki doll.