Salon.com | In the lion's den: "Meanwhile, the right's intellectuals and activists had largely scrapped talk of democracy. Some suggested that the Iraqis themselves are our enemy, that we owe them nothing. Pipes referenced 'The Mouse That Roared,' the 1959 film in which a poor country declares war on America, hoping to lose and be rebuilt like Germany and Japan. The implication seemed to be that Iraq is both lucky and greedy. " The neo-con right is NUTS. They are by turns in denial and in outer-space. I'll break it down sometime when I get some moments.