Word: neos
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...neo-conservative hawks and the Saudis are in opposition on two key U.S. foreign policy questions - Iraq and Israel. Despite their hostility to Saddam Hussein, the Saudis oppose a U.S. attack on Iraq for fear that the resulting instability would pose a threat to the region far greater than that of the Iraqi dictator - and could even see their own increasingly fragile regime swept aside by anti-Western extremists. They haven't only demurred from allowing the U.S. to invade Iraq from their territory; they've actively rallied the Arab world against such an attack, choreographing Iraq's diplomatic rehabilitation...
...Board chairman Richard Perle, reject the notion that calming the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a prerequisite for attacking Iraq, arguing instead that removing Saddam's regime will break the logjam in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It's not an argument that resonates anywhere in the Arab world, but the neo-cons have little patience right now for Arab reservations...
...Still Need the Saudis?" (No, is the usual answer). Concerns over everything from the price of oil to the prospect that cutting Saudi Arabia loose might very well hand the country over to the likes of Osama bin Laden are given short shrift. Typical is the essay in the neo-con flagship journal Commentary, arguing for Washington to abandon the Saudis and foment a region-wide revolution against Arab authoritarianism in an effort to remake the Middle East on terms friendlier to the U.S. and Israel...
...racist novel The Turner Diaries, which imagines the violent overthrow of the Federal Government and was found among the possessions of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh; of cancer; in Hillsboro, W.Va. Alarmed by the civil rights movement, the ex-physics professor co-founded the National Alliance, the largest neo-Nazi group in the country...
Katherine McGaffigan—the key witness whose testimony in a Boston federal court last month led to the conviction last Friday of a neo-Nazi and his white supremacist girlfriend for conspiracy to bomb a Jewish or black landmark—is not actually a Harvard undergraduate despite her claims to the contrary, the University confirmed last night...