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Diplomats and Military Comdrs for Chang
by: bush_whacks_it 06/13/04 11:21 pm
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guardian.co.uk
...The signatories to the statement, to be released on Wednesday in Washington, call themselves Diplomats and Military Commanders for Change. Most of them were appointed under the Reagan and first Bush administrations.
They include Admiral William J Crowe, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff in the 1980s before becoming ambassador to Britain from 1993 to 1997, Arthur Hartman, an ambassador to the Soviet Union and France, and William Harrop, the US ambassador to Israel from 1991 to 1993 who was also an ambassador to four African countries.
Mr Harrop said: "A lot of people felt the work they had done over their lifetime in trying to build a situation in which the United States was respected and could lead the rest of the world was now undermined by this administration, by the arrogance, by the refusal to listen to others, the scorn for multilateral organisations."
In criticising the Bush administration's abandonment of stability in the Middle East in favour of the aggressive pursuit of change, the statement goes to the core of the debate in US foreign policy circles over the influence of the so-called neo-conservatives.
A senior republican strategist told the Los Angeles Times: "For 60 years we believed in, quote, unquote, 'stability' at the price of liberty, and what we got is neither liberty nor stability. So now we are taking a fundamentally different approach toward the Middle East. That is a huge doctrinal shift, and the people who have given their lives, careers to building the previous foreign policy consensus, see this as a direct intellectual assault on what they have devoted their lives to. And it is."
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