USA: the Hawks & the Establishment

WASHINGTON, Jun 3 (IPS) - Hawks in the administration of President George W. Bush may think that they are tough, but their dreams of ''regime change'' in Iran and North Korea are increasingly deluded, not to say dangerous, according to their hard-edged realist rivals who have become increasingly outspoken in recent weeks. Their latest broadside comes in the form of an article by Richard Haass, president of the influential Council on Foreign Relations, in the forthcoming edition of the journal Foreign Affairs entitled "The Limits of Regime Change". Haass, who served under Bush in a top State Department position, also has just published a new book, 'The Opportunity: America's Moment to Alter History's Course', one of the central themes of which is that the hawks have over-estimated Washington's ability to change the world.

'Realists' Press for Bush to Engage Iran, North Korea
by Jim Lobe, IPS