By David Rennie in Boston
(Filed: 29/07/2004)
America’s allies expecting a shift in United States foreign policy from a President John Kerry should think again, his top advisers said yesterday.
Instead, members of Mr Kerry’s inner circle could promise only “stark contrasts” of personality and style between President George W Bush and their candidate, who they vowed would be a “hands-on, engaged, diplomat-in-chief”.
Rand Beers, the national security adviser to the Kerry campaign, opened a high-level briefing with a warning: “In many ways, the goals of the two administrations are in fact not all that different.”
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