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The Sunshine Warrior: Paul Wolfowitz

(New York Times) Bill Keller - You hear from some of Wolfowitz's critics, always off the record, that Israel exercises a powerful gravitational pull on the man. Those who know him well say this - leaving aside the offensive suggestion of dual loyalty - is looking at Wolfowitz through the wrong end of the telescope. He has generally been less excited by the security of Israel than by the promise of a more moderate Islam. ''As a moral man, he might have found Israel the heart of the Middle East story,'' Stephen Sestanovich says. ''But as a policy maker, Turkey and the gulf and Egypt didn't loom any less large for him.''
2002-09-26 00:00:00
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