Iraq Reviews > Scowcroft and the realist-idealist split between conservative generations

http://www.thenextleft.com [The Next Left] JEFFREY GOLDBERG: For one thing, he’s a leading proponent of the “realist” school of foreign-policy thinking, which stands in opposition to the “transformationalist,” or neoconservative, or liberal interventionist””pick your preference””school. He also has a great deal of experience on the Iraqi question””he managed the first Gulf War for President George H.

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http://revolutionagainandagain.blogspot.com [Aquarian Conspirators: ALERTS, NEWS, COMMENTARY, and the occasional Rant] Scowcroft on Bush; Devastating!: George Bush, the forty-first President, has tried several times to arrange meetings between his son, "Forty-three," and his former national-security adviser to no avail, according to people with knowledge of these intertwined relationships. "There have been occasions when Forty-one has engineered meetings in which Forty-three and Scowcroft are in the same place at the same time, but they were social settings that weren't conducive to talking about substantive issues," a Scowcroft confidant said.

[Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal] "Breaking Ranks": In the article, he argued that an invasion of Iraq would deflect American attention from the war on terrorism, and that it would do nothing to solve the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis, which he has long believed is the primary source of unhappiness in the Middle East. Unlike the current Bush Administration, which is unambiguously pro-Israel, Scowcroft, James Baker, and others associated with the elder George Bush believe that Israel's settlement policies arouse Arab anger, and that American foreign policy should reflect the fact that there are far more Arabs than Israelis in the world.

Wbur.orghttp://www.wbur.org [Wbur.org] Iraq War Weblog, Conflict in Iraq: Under the protection of a no-fly zone, and having negotiated an end to a civil war between two political factions, the Kurds of northern Iraq are prospering in what some observers are calling a "Golden Age." They have established civil institutions like courts and other trappings of an embryonic state, and their armed militias help keep the peace in northern Iraq. Ankara frets this experiment in Kurdish autonomy will inspire the Kurds of Turkey which account for 20% of the population.

[Corner.nationalreview.com] The Corner on National Review Online: Not to be a Pollyanna on this subject, but the story is a) Reuters, which means that it's biased in the way it casts no information as information, and b) of course Fitzgerald's investigation is coming to a head, because his grand jury is set to expire some time this month. So either he will indict or he won't.

Lewrockwell.com[Lewrockwell.com] Neo-Conservatism Archives: Mark Hand on Kurt Nimmo and Life in Neoconservative America.

Noleftturns.ashbrook.orghttp://noleftturns.ashbrook.org [Noleftturns.ashbrook.org] No Left Turns: The AFP reports: "A judicial investigation into two high-ranking former French diplomats -- both suspected of benefitting from the largesse of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq -- has cast a spotlight on the often ambiguous relations between Paris and the former dictator. The affair also casts a shadow over France’s Iraqi policy and raises suspicions about the complicity of top political figures, according to French analysts and newspapers." But, Prime minister Dominique de Villepin says that France’s honor will not be sullied by these revelations.

Prospect.org[Prospect.org] TAPPED: July 2005 Archives: Realistically, though, the notion that there's an electoral goldmine out there that can be tapped by demonizing Tony Perkins sufficiently has very little empirical support and seems to me to be largely driven by people who are overgeneralizing from their personal interactions. Look through this Pew survey and you'll see that Democrats are much more divided over cultural issues than are Republicans.

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