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Condi Rice's choice of Eliot Cohen as the new Counselor of the State
Department severely undermines our hope that underneath Dr. Rice's cool
exterior there might linger a few warm instincts of bipartisanship and
evenhandedness. Perhaps even more disturbing than Mr. Cohen's
gratuitous and vicious personal assault on Professors John Mearsheimer
and Stephen Walt (see ref), which puts his intellectual objectivity in
doubt, is his political affinity with the militant neocons in The
Project for the New American Century --- which raises serious doubts
about his commitment to the basic precepts of diplomacy and
international law which his new authority is supposed to uphold.
Ray Close
