Please go to this link posted yesterday by John Huang for a look at who finances SnowCraft's group: (Follow the Money: The Scowcroft Group, link)
This was a great ending to the oped that you posted:
I think we understand the peoples of the Middle East well enough, having repeatedly watched them dancing in the street at our misfortunes. It is time now to press a little understanding of us on them. The crushing of the cockroach regime in Iraq, aside from its other probable benefits, would be a splendid way to accomplish this — to bring a little attitude adjustment to a region sorely in need of it, and unlikely to acquire it through the efforts of managers, however many "diplomatic initiatives" they launch, however many "peace processes" they set in motion, however much "understanding" they display, however many "hands of friendship" they extend, however many toasts they raise to those who hate us and who spit on our values.
Time to Kick Saddam's A$$ and take his ga$!
God save us from such managers.
They manage to dance about the ballroom with their PhD heads up their arms control recta.
Until a Hitler or a Saddam Hussein sticks his foot out and they go headlong into a mountain of skulls for a perfect strike.