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The disappointment of David Ignatius

In "Which Foreign Policy?" columnist David Ignatius wonders if the crazy neo-cons will still be running the Bush adminstration's foreign policy or will the more sober realists? He considers the following "hopeful" developments:

Yet there are reasons not to take these bold words entirely at face value. Behind the rhetoric, the changes of personnel in Bush II seem, in fact, to be turning Bush more toward the neoconservatives' rivals, the foreign policy school known as the "realists." At the State Department, Condoleezza Rice has been signaling that she wants to follow Colin Powell in the GOP foreign policy mainstream; meanwhile, the leading neocon at State, Undersecretary John R. Bolton, is expected to leave that post soon.

I think he might be in for a disappointment. This is what Dr. Rice said yesterday:

Our charge is clear: We on the right side of freedom's divide have an obligation to help those unlucky enough to have been born on the wrong side of that divide.

That sounds awfully neo-conny to me.
I thing that Mr. Ignatius may be disappointed over the next 4 years.

Posted by SoccerDad at February 9, 2005 3:21 AM