Much to the dismay of rational foreign policy thinkers everywhere, the recalcitrant neocons have not gone away. In fact, they're not a bit sorry for the mess they've made of George W. Bush's presidency, let alone Iraq. But why? One reason: it's who they are. It's helpful to remember that behind every good neocon, is a major oil company, much the way the primo neocon think tank, the American Enterprise Institute (the key backer of, and the organization that rents space to, the PNAC folks), is funded in large measure by Exxon Mobile. The neocons are useful intellectuals laboring, whether knowingly or unknowlingly, to give frame and meaning to a policy that really amounts to resource plunder on a grand, grand scale.
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