Bush is in sync with his people and the neo-cons

Amir Taheri takes a look at Condi Rice and President Bush.

The new Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was never regarded as a neo-con, and the new National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley has always been seen as a cautious operator. Robert Zoellick, the man chosen as Rice's deputy, has won plaudits from the Europeans as a moderate while Nicholas Burns, who will be Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, is identified as a multilateralist.

The State Department's most senior neo-con, John Bolton, has been shown the door and replaced by Robert Joseph, a cautious operator. More importantly, Bush did not promote Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, the best strategic brain of the neo-conservatives. ...

My reading is that Bush is a dynamic political leader both by temperament and conviction, and that he was the key inspiration for the so-called neo-conservative agenda rather than its unwitting salesman. more

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