by Richard N. Haass from Newsweek website. Haass is president of the Council on Foreign Relations, a prime governing class organization. I occasionally like to read what our representatives of the governing class are thinking, even though their writing must be decoded in order to reveal their thinking. I thought this article of particular interest because it was printed in a mainstream magazine. Hence it is designed to influence opinion leaders from all strata of decision makers in the US. I won't bother to comment on their use of the terms "human rights" or "democracy" or "democratic" other than to say that such people haven't the slightest interest in human rights and their use of the terms "democracy" and "democratic" are code terms for capitalism.
Note that the article presents two points of view: a realist and neo-conservative. The former has to do with more indirect approaches to promoting the interests of capitalists, the latter is the former plus a large dose of Zionist interests. The latter make use of much more aggressive strategies, and I fear that this may lead us into more military adventures in the Mid-East.