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...talks are occurring in an atmosphere of mutual suspicion, in which confrontational invective is growing. Just days after the U.S.-Iran meeting, a group of powerful neo-conservatives -including some of those who were most active in promoting the invasion of Iraq - plan to gather for an all-expenses-paid conference entitled "Confronting The Iranian Threat: The Way Forward" at a luxurious resort in the Bahamas. Many of the 30 or so invited guests have been strident critics of Iran and hard-liners on maintaining the U.S. presence in Iraq. They include six current Bush Administration officials - among them...
...Meanwhile, two longtime Bush supporters among the neo-conservatives - an ideological pressure group with advocates in and out of government - have revived public calls for military action against Iran. Norman Podhoretz, editor of the journal Commentary, authored an article in the magazine's June 2007 issue, "The Case for Bombing Iran." And former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton told Fox News this week that "the only recourse is to dramatically ratchet up the economic and political pressure on Iran and keep open the option of regime change or even military force...
...into that of a vibrant, fun destination-a place people will want to live in or at least visit on holiday, not merely transit on their way to more exotic Southeast Asian locales such as Bangkok and Bali. "Our entire nation is focused on a self-transformation," says Lim Neo Chian, CEO of the Singapore Tourism Board. "Singapore is changing its image in the eyes of the world...
...Iraq invasion, then Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz assured Congress that Iraqi oil would pay for the country's occupation and reconstruction. If my Iraqi oil traders are right, it's one more thing we need to add to the long list Wolfowitz and his neo-con friends in the Administration got wrong: oil is helping pay for Iraq' s destruction...
...relativism, progress itself has come to seem a perniciously elitist and Eurocentric concept, a useful ideological tool for advancing a global capitalist agenda at the expense of what is condescendingly referred to as the “developing world.” And the neo-conservatives, who have portrayed themselves as the paladins of “end of history” Hegelian progressivism, are routinely demonized for leading the United States into a mistaken war in Iraq. All told, progress and the talk thereof have become nothing short of a pariah...