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I'm with you. It's possible that the current storm is passing, but that does not imply that the conditions that made us vulnerable are gone - we seem to lack storm shutters. What worries me is that the vulnerability in the system is clear. If Bush had just pushed a bit earlier for war with Iran, if the neo-cons had had just a bit more control over the resistance on the business side of things, we probably wouldn't be having this argument today.
And don't believe that the ambitious out there don't see the opportunity. Without some systemic change, neo-cons under new names, or their analogues will come back. Remember, a number of the neo-cons were Trotskyites - when that program failed, they just relabeled themselves and found new allies to subvert.
We'll see how things go with the summit. If Condi is in control, we have little hope - that means Kissinger is still at the helm, and we know from his "Diplomacy" that he considers Stalin to be the greatest political genius of the 20th century.
