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Titolo: Falchi rimbambiti

Hawks tell Bush how to win war on terror
By David Rennie in Washington
The Telegraph (UK)
President George W Bush was sent a public manifesto yesterday by
Washington's
hawks, demanding regime change in Syria and Iran and a Cuba-style military
blockade of North Korea backed by planning for a pre-emptive strike on its
nuclear sites.
The manifesto, presented as a "manual for victory" in the war on terror,
also
calls for Saudi Arabia and France to be treated not as allies but as rivals
and possibly enemies.
The manifesto is contained in a new book by Richard Perle, a Pentagon
adviser
and "intellectual guru" of the hardline neo-conservative movement, and David
Frum, a former Bush speechwriter. They give warning of a faltering of the
"will to win" in Washington.
In the battle for the president's ear, the manifesto represents an attempt
by
hawks to break out of the post-Iraq doldrums and strike back at what they
see
as a campaign of hostile leaking by their foes in such centres of caution as
the State Department or in the military top brass.
Their publication, An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror, coincided
with the latest broadside from the hawks' enemy number one, Colin Powell,
the
secretary of state.
Though on leave recovering from a prostate cancer operation, Mr Powell
summoned reporters to his bedside to hail "encouraging" signs of a "new
attitude" in Iran and call for the United States to keep open the prospect
of
dialogue with the Teheran authorities.
Such talk is anathema to hawks like Mr Perle and Mr Frum who urge Washington
to shun the mullahs and work for their overthrow in concert with Iranian
dissidents.
It may be assumed that their instincts at least are shared by hawks inside
the government, whose twin power bases are the Pentagon's civilian
leadership
and the office of the vice-president, Dick Cheney.
Such officials prevailed over invading Afghanistan and Iraq, but have been
seen as on the back foot since the autumn as their post-war visions of
building a secular, free-market Iraq were scaled back in favour of
compromise
and a swift handover of power next June.
The book demands that any talks with North Korea require the complete and
immediate abandonment of its nuclear programme.
As North Korea will probably refuse such terms, the book urges a Cuba-style
military blockade and overt preparations for war, including the rapid
pullback of US forces from the inter-Korean border so that they move out of
range of North Korean artillery.
Such steps, with luck, will prompt China to oust its nominal ally, Kim Jong-
il, and install a saner regime in North Korea, the authors write.
The authoritarian rule of Syria's leader, Bashar Assad, should also be
ended,
encouraged by shutting oil supplies from Iraq, seizing arms he buys from
Iran, and raids into Syria to hunt terrorists.
The authors urge Mr Bush to "tell the truth about Saudi Arabia". Wealthy
Saudis, some of them royal princes, fund al-Qa'eda, they write.
The Saudi government backs "terror-tainted Islamic organisations" as part of
a larger campaign to "spread its extremist version of Islam throughout the
Muslim world and into Europe and North America".
The book calls for tough action against France and its dreams of offsetting
US power. "We should force European governments to choose between Paris and
Washington," it states. Britain's independence from Europe should be
preserved, perhaps with open access for British arms to American defence
markets.

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