New Foreign Policy Team will try to counteract Kristol's PNAC

[La_Serpiente]

I found this refreshing.

A new team of foreign policy experts - a whole lot of them - is formaing a new group called a Coalition for a Realistic Foreign Policy. Their main objective is to counteract the influence of the neo-conservatives in Washington who are bent on making the US the next US Empire.

All this is making kind of scared. It sounds like there is going to be a huge clash of everything: foreign policy, secularism vs. religion (Pledge Case to Supreme Court), Gay Rights, the Environment vs. the Energy Companies. Heck, this is going to be one crazy election year.

Here is the link:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=655&e=5&u=/oneworld/4536706431066394238

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Well well bout bloody time

[Fovea]

2. I predicted civil war by 2006

and I stick to my prediction.

If the election is stolen again
Cal and NY will continue to be screwed by the repugs.
Then they will remove themselves from the union, starting Civil War 2.
This time, foreign powers will not sit it out.

[La_Serpiente]

3. Why do I concur with you?

It does seem "unbelievable", but now that all this shit has happened within the last three years, I do see Demcratic instability if Bush is re-elected.

[wuushew]

4. It appears to be an old fashioned paleocon isolationist movement

Among the more prominent right-wing signers are Doug Bandow, a special assistant to former president Ronald Reagan (news - web sites) and now a senior officer at the libertarian Cato Institute; Scott McConnell, chief editor of 'The American Conservative' magazine; and Alan Tonelson of the U.S. Business & Industrial Council Educational Foundation.


Representing more centrist positions are Steven Clemons of the New America Foundation, former senator Gary Hart, and Harvard international relations professor Stephen Walt.


On the left side of the spectrum are Charles Kupchan, an aide to former president Bill Clinton (news - web sites) now with the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and Kenneth Sharpe, a prominent foreign-policy analyst from Swarthmore College in Philadelphia.