A Neocon War-Planning Vacation to the Bahamas! (May 30, 2007)

[swag]

from The Washington Note (Steve Clemons):

Jim Lobe, one of the best international affairs correspondents who has resisted the trend towards homogenization in his sector's coverage, has launched a blog, and he has a cool expose on a neocon retreat being planned for the Bahamas on May 30.

The conference is titled "Confronting The Iranian Threat: The Way Forward." Perhaps they'll all get burned CDs of McCain singing "Bomb Bomb Bomb -- Bomb Bomb Iran" as conference favors.

Take a look at the reported list of attendees -- but be sure to distinguish between invited and confirmed. I don't believe that US Ambassador to the UN Zal Khalilzad would dare attend this meeting.

Forget the token liberal at the party? Where is the token realist?

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[illinoisprogressive]

1. it is getting very scary. Can't anyone do something to stop the bushies and neocons.

[marmar]

2. Is it wrong to hope for an early-season hurricane?

:hide:

[AlCzervik]

3. i picture Dr. Evil and his minions sitting around at the secret lair.

these people are fucking crazy.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

4. In 1999 I was invited to an event put on by the Heritage Foundation

I was actually treated quite nicely, but while nothing especially unreasonable was said in terms of decency or partisanship (other than a few Monica jokes), the stuff most of these people were talking about was so abstract and unrealistic that you might have thought a few of these people were stoned. These people were talking about the trade relationships that the US might establish with certain countries and they were talking about them as though the British or French had left yesterday! Ignoring the fact that many of these countries no longer had functioning governments or rule of law, let alone the ability or will to import American intellectual property laws.

They were proposing that the United States embark on a new trade policy with the developing world based on make believe. The only thing missing was a dapper exile from fuck knows where to praise the Heritage Foundations plans for the country he had not stepped for in for 20 years.

I also got stuck in the receiving line for photos with some Ford and Reagan era stooges, quite cherished as you might imagine.