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To: Neocon who wrote (13932)	8/6/1999 6:05:00 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

George W's eminence grise for foreign affairs sheds light on what will likely be the foreign policy of the US's next (GOP) administration: America says: never again! After Kosovo, the US is wary of a humanitarian foreign policy. A Kissinger-style realpolitik may be on its way back, writes *John Lloyd* The most humanitarian war fought in modern times may be the last of the genre for some while. In the US the lessons being drawn about the war in Kosovo are not encouraging for those who think that foreign policies should be ethical and humanitarian. Where, before the war, some mocked the idea, now many mock the practice. This re-examination will change foreign policy, especially if George W Bush becomes president of the US (at present, he is the preferred candidate, Republican or Democrat). But it is also likely to be the case if Al Gore keeps the White House in Democrat hands. The Kosovo "adventure" is widely thought to have been a mistake. In the US recently, I interviewed Condoleeza Rice, the provost of Stanford University, in California, and a former national security aide to George W's father, in the Bush presidency. Rice is now chief foreign policy adviser to George W: in a second Bush presidency, she would likely be either secretary of state or national security adviser. [...] Full story: newstatesman.co.uk