Today's column from Jon Carroll.....(San Francisco Chronicle)

[Webster Green]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/03/17/DDGU9GJ5LN1.DTL

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A slippery slope differs from, say, a rocky slope in that a slippery slope is a lot harder to climb back up. Not that the president seems to be in any mood to reverse course -- everyone believes him when he says he's going to "stay the course." Staying the course on a slippery slope is easy -- it's what's at the bottom of the slope that's the problem.)
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Here's what I'm sure of: No one actually wants nuclear war. Iran has long been a country that says what it needs to say in public, and does what it needs to do in private. It is an oppressive regime, and yet it tolerates all sorts of un-Islamic behaviors as long as they happen behind closed doors. The citizens of Iran are not cut off from the international information flux the way, say, the citizens of China are. There are deals to be cut. Do you have any confidence that the Bush administration employs wily, sophisticated diplomats? Me neither.
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[EST]

1. I'm not so sure that nobody wants nuclear war.

I suspect many freeperish neo-conmen assume that they, themselves, will be among the survivors, if any.