Mann said the Bush administration had not followed neocon recommendations regarding Russia, North Korea, China or even Iraq's neighbors of Syria and Iran. Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz vaguely threatened force against Syria last year, but they had not done so lately. "Nobody's talking about force any more," Mann said.
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