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...whom worked in the Reagan or Bush White House--belong to a generation that came of age in the twilight of communism. Rice has been a fixture at confabs of the foreign policy establishment, such as the Aspen Institute, where last month she and her Bush Administration mentor Brent Scowcroft engaged in typically elevated and polite debate with Democratic stalwarts such as Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott. Rice believes U.S.-Russia relations should be reoriented to focus on security issues like nuclear disarmament rather than political and economic reform; the Administration is already moving in that direction. Although...
...leveled against them--a layout that looked like the life insurance-company ads congratulating the leading salesmen of the tristate area. Now, after 6 1/2 years of Clinton, you're nostalgic for those Protestant gentlemen of the Bush era who never came near getting indicted. The vision of Brent Scowcroft dozing in the Oval Office brings a warm glow...
Some critics charge that by forswearing ground troops from the start to placate domestic opinion, the Clinton Administration handed Milosevic his current military advantage. "It was a terrible military statement," said Brent Scowcroft, National Security Adviser under George Bush. "If you tell Milosevic we're not going to put ground forces in, that makes him even more determined to ride out a bombing campaign." As a result, the choice could come down to sending in ground forces or giving up and going home...
...expedience. Purists may yearn for a single principle to apply across the board. But, says Brent Scowcroft, George Bush's National Security Adviser, "consistency here doesn't work." Pragmatism is what rules the world of power politics, in which a range of less high-minded considerations determines who wins and who loses in the statehood lottery...
...name that shouldn't have been there "jumped out at me." It was the name of Marlin Fitzwater, who had been George Bush's press secretary. (Some other names that Marceca, who had worked in Democratic campaigns, should have recognized: James Baker, Bush's Secretary of State, and Brent Scowcroft, Bush's National Security Adviser.) Wetzl says she then told Livingstone that Marceca had been using an outdated list. She described his reply as "nothing memorable...