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...create a government with a loyal Shi'ite-Kurd security force? And who can say the Sunni rebels won't-with some creative dealmaking-eventually acquiesce? The foreign-policy priesthood may be appalled by all the unexpected consequences, but there has been stunned silence in the non-neocon think tanks since the Iraqi elections...
...Feith was the most overripe of neocons-a man who served as an adviser to Israel's then Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (he advised Netanyahu to invade Iraq); a man who was "in charge" of postwar "planning" for our invasion of Iraq; a man who oversaw the Office of Special Plans, which hyped evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq; a man whom General Tommy Franks once called "the dumbest f______ guy on the planet." To be sure, much of the neocon dream team survives at the Pentagon, but friends of Rumsfeld have noted that he is less enchanted...
...quietly significant move, the post of Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs may go to a diplomat, David Welch, rather than to a neocon (although it is expected that the ever present Elliot Abrams will have a hand in this area from his perch at the National Security Council). The neoconservative lockout at State has led to speculation that the U.N. post might be thrown to them as a sop. The rumor last week was Paul Wolfowitz; the rumor the week before was Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security John Bolton. There is a tradition of neoconservative eloquence...
...Hamlet is Iraq, not sure how it should act under the new occupation. Or Hamlet?s father is George Bush 41, who urges Bush 43 (Hamlet) to heed the relative moderation and international coalition-building of his own reign and throw over Cheney, Wolfowitz and the rest of the neocon faction (Claudius) that have usurped the kingdom. This game can be played till metaphorical exhaustion, or November 2nd, whichever comes first...
...neoconservative assumption). The response to Islamic radicalism would be strategic, as Rice said, not tactical: the Middle East would be rebuilt according to American principles, and Iraq was the key. If Saddam Hussein could be replaced by a democracy (or perhaps just a pro-American government headed by every neocon's favorite Iraqi, Ahmad Chalabi), then there would be a "benign domino effect." Libya, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iran and, ultimately, the Palestinians would be intimidated into moderation. Terrorism--which was, after all, just a tactic--would evaporate because the states sponsoring it would be transformed...