Akiva Eldar, the respected Haaretz columnist suggests Bush may be finding a realist voice, and staying arm's length from Neo-cons. These personnel moves come at a time when US-European dialogue on the Middle East has improved considerably. Haaretz - Israel News - Now it s all up to Bush: "A recent series of appointments - or to be more precise, the 'kicking upstairs' that has taken place in the top echelons of the administration - seem to testify that the president no longer adheres to the neoconservative approach, which holds that what doesn't work by force, will work by greater force. To appoint Undersecretary of State John Bolton, who once said that nobody would notice if 10 stories of the UN building were shaved off, as ambassador to the UN, and to send the deputy secretary of defense, isolationist Paul Wolfowitz, to the World Bank, is like ordering the class he-man to play with dolls alongside the girls. Nor did the White House go out of its way to try to change the decision of the undersecretary, neocon Douglas Feith, to go home. "
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