AlterNet: Differences Among Hawks

Ulhas Joglekar uvj at vsnl.com
Sat Mar 22 03:38:08 PST 2003


Michael Pollak wrote:


> "The earliest and most salient rift (in the hawks' coalition) will be
> the hard-right nationalists, like Rumsfeld and Cheney, and the
> neo-conservatives," according to Charles Kupchan, a foreign-policy
>analyst at the Council on Foreign Relations and National Security
>Council strategist under former President Bill Clinton. "For the hard
>right, this is really about getting Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass
>destruction. Once that's done, they're going to say, 'Okay, we've done
> our job, now let's get the hell out and go home".

Kupchan said in a BBC interview few days ago that the US was likely to go to war elsewhere at least once, after Iraq war is over. He mentioned North Korea, Pakistan and Sudan as probable targets. He did not mention Iran.

Ulhas



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