Stephan:   I am presently at an invitational conference at Esalen Institute on Russian- American relations, and there are several Russians here. Their comments make it clear that the policies of the Neocons have poisoned relations between our two countries. It is much the same story I heard recently at a professional water conference in Sweden. They Neocons with their aggresive paranoia and craziness have cost us the world's respect, and affection. Mostly the world sees us now as a greedy bully. The Neocons -- Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Abrahms, and others -- I believe history will decide are some of the greatest villains in modern history. They serve their corporate masters, and advocate American exceptionalism and unending war.  They are, as one former high ranking American diplomat attending said to me today, "dangerous to the health of the world."