[Peace-discuss] Bush vs. the Neocons

[C. G. Estabrook]

Nothing characterizes the last year of the Lesser Bush more than the break with 
the Neocon dominance of his administration.  The result of incapacity? (Was Bush 
in fact publicly drunk at the Olympics?)  Or pique? (The split between the WH 
and the OVP may already be in place at the time of the Libby affair.)  In any 
case, Cheney's easy use of Bush as an instrument (seen in the investigation the 
WP had done but wouldn't publish before the 2006 election) is no more.

But don't get too happy.  That means that the USG is largely back in the hands 
of a foreign policy establishment that brought us Clinton's and Kennedy's wars. 
    And their drive for "full spectrum dominance" -- hegemony, not survival -- 
may finally make them more dangerous than the murderous Neocons. What some 
psychologists call splitting should be avoided ("Since the Neocons are bad, the 
foreign policy establishment must be good") -- noticeable as it may be in, e.g., 
the presidential election.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/magazine/31bush-t.html?ref=magazine&pagewanted=all