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11-22-2004 08:56 PM |
Neo-Con Agenda: Iran, China, Russia, Latin America
So Iraq is not enough, ....
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WASHINGTON, Nov 5 (IPS) - An influential foreign-policy neo-conservative with longstanding ties to top hawks in the administration of President George W Bush has laid out what he calls ''a checklist of the work the world will demand of this president and his subordinates in a second term.''
The list, which begins with the destruction of Fallujah in Iraq and ends with the development of ''appropriate strategies'' for dealing with threats posed by China, Russia and ''the emergence of a number of aggressively anti-American regimes in Latin America,'' also calls for ''regime change'' in Iran and North Korea.
The list's author, Frank Gaffney, the founder and president of the Centre for Security Policy (CSP), also warns that Bush should resist any pressure arising from the anticipated demise of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to resume peace talks that could result in Israel's giving up ''defensible boundaries.''
http://www.ipsnews.net/new_nota.asp?idnews=26169
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WASHINGTON, Nov 22 (IPS) - The coalition of foreign-policy hawks that promoted the 2003 invasion of Iraq is pressing President George W Bush to adopt a more coercive policy toward North Korea, despite strong opposition from China and South Korea.
By most accounts, North Korea ranked high in bilateral talks between Bush and Northeast Asian leaders, including Chinese President Hu Jintao, at the summit of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in Santiago, Chile this past weekend, although the final communiqué did not address the issue.
Bush reportedly tried to make clear that his patience toward Pyongyang and its alleged efforts to stall the ongoing ''Six-Party Talks'' was fast running out and that Washington will soon push for stronger measures against North Korea in the absence of progress toward an agreement under which Pyongyang will dismantle its alleged nuclear-arms programme.
Bush claimed Sunday that his interlocutors, who included the leaders of the four other parties -- Russia, China, Japan and South Korea -- agreed with him, but Hu and South Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun have not backed down publicly from their strong opposition to a harder line toward Pyongyang.
Indeed, just before the weekend summit, Roh told an audience in Los Angeles that a hard-line policy over North Korea's nuclear weapons would have ''grave repercussions'', adding, ?There is no alternative left in dealing with this issue except dialogue''.
The South Korean leader also denounced the idea of an economic embargo against Pyongyang.
That the hawks back in Washington are indeed mobilising became clear Monday when William Kristol, an influential neo-conservative who also chairs the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), faxed a statement entitled 'Toward Regime Change in North Korea' to reporters and various ''opinion leaders'' in the capital.
PNAC, which boasts Vice President Dick Cheney, Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld, Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and Cheney's powerful chief of staff, I Lewis Libby -- among a dozen other senior Bush national-security officials -- as signers of its 1997 charter, issues statements relatively infrequently.
http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=26384
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More people to piss off ...
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