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Published on: 6/10/2004
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Still, the balance of power is anything but clear, particularly after the announcement last week that the new national security adviser, Cheney protégé Stephen Hadley, had chosen J.D. Crouch, a gun and nuclear weapons enthusiast who may be even further to the right than Bolton, as his deputy.
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During the first term, Crouch, currently ambassador to Romania, oversaw Washington's withdrawal from the 1973 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) treaty and the near sabotage of several arms-control negotiations.
In the past, he has called for pre-emptive military action against North Korea and Cuba.But he is perhaps most notorious for a letter to the editor of the Washington Times blaming the 1999 massacre of students at Columbine High School in Colorado on "30 years of liberal social policy that has put our children in day care, taken God out of the schools, taken Mom out of the house, and banished Dad as an authority figure from the family altogether".
Despite the coup that his appointment represents, it's still not clear that the hawks are indeed in the driver's seat, in part because the game of musical chairs is not yet finished.