Word: hawkishness
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...diluting the impact of Bush's speech by negotiating Resolution 1441, which sent arms inspectors back to Iraq. This is a rather bizarre reading of what was generally hailed as a triumph of administration diplomacy - the resolution passed unanimously, after all. Gingrich and his pals in the ultra-hawkish Defense Policy Board may have wanted to see a resolution back then demanding military action for Iraq's previous non-compliance, but that wouldn't have passed at all. (Even Britain would have been unable to support it.) Resolution 1441 was as good as it was going...
...State Department "Arabists" have long been a favorite target of Washington neoconservatives, precisely because their support for the hawkish Likud line in Israeli politics makes them hostile to any effort in Washington to balance U.S. foreign policy between support for Israel and recognition of Arab interests. Gingrich and his pals in and around the Pentagon, like Richard Perle, Douglas Feith and Paul Wolfowitz want to turn Iraq over to Ahmad Chalabi, the exiled banker (or swindler, according to the Jordanian courts) whom they have cultivated in their own image as a leader that would toe the U.S. line and embrace...
That is not happening now. Condoleezza Rice seems to have disappeared. There are two theories about this. Some say she's been overwhelmed by the more senior Administration titans; others say she has come to favor the hawkish Cheney-Rumsfeld side. But there is a more likely possibility: Rice is simply doing her job, reflecting the style and wishes of the President. And that style, as we have seen over the past weeks, is increasingly simple in a world--and a war--that seems increasingly complex...
RESIGNED. RICHARD PERLE, 61, as chairman of the Defense Policy Board, which advises the Pentagon; amid criticism of his business ties, including one with Global Crossing, which had retained the hawkish Perle to help gain Pentagon approval of its sale to an Asian venture; in Washington. While denying any conflict of interest, Perle said he did not want to distract attention from the Pentagon's current "urgent challenge...
...will rule a post-Saddam Iraq? The hawkish civilians who run the Pentagon have long championed the claims of Ahmed Chalabi of the exiled Iraqi National Congress. Putting Iraqis in charge, the hawks argue, will offset international criticism that the U.S. is out to colonize the country and jumpstart the transition to Iraqi democracy by bypassing the question of whether the U.S. or the UN should take charge in Baghdad. But the State Department and the CIA are deeply suspicious of Chalabi. They question his claim to have popular support inside Iraq, and warn against preempting the Iraqis' choosing their...