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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group

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To: GST who wrote (120544)11/28/2003 3:23:46 PM
From: Jacob Snyder  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Rally of the realists
By Jim Lobe Asia Times 11/27/03
atimes.com

WASHINGTON - After two years of dominating United States foreign policy, are unilateralist hawks in the administration of President George W Bush losing power to the so-called realists whom they have long disdained?

Although internal fights within the administration on issues such as policy towards Syria, Iran and North Korea remain fierce, there are growing indications that the influence of the hawks, neo-conservatives in particular, is on the wane...

While Bush himself still deploys the soaring "we're-bringing-democracy-to-the-Arab-world" rhetoric that has been a neo-conservative trademark for the past 15 months - most recently in his trip last week to Britain - the growing consensus here is that the decision to accelerate the transfer of sovereignty to an Iraqi government belies a sharp reduction in those ambitions...
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