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To: bentway who wrote (169001)	8/14/2005 11:39:21 PM
From: neolib	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I believe Wolfowitz's comment is correct. But the neocon agenda is not specifically linked to the US dollar. It is a more general idea, that free market economies and democratic governments along the lines of the USA are "optimal" in some sense and are also inevitable. If China were to become a bastion of free markets, individual liberty and democratic government, you might find all the neocons going to live there eventually, once they became convinced it was not a communist plot of some sort, especially if the Dems were ruling the roost at home. IMO, it is this idealistic adherence to this model, with good and evil clearly understood that leads to the problems with Iran & Nukes. Israel is clearly good, so they can be trusted with Nukes. Iran is evil, so it cannot be trusted. There is no attempt to understand that Iran sees the situation rather differently, and legitimately lives in fear of Israel. Consequently, there is no desire in the West to even broach the subject of disarming Israel, or treating the situation in a more symmetric fashion.