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Can American culture make Muslims love us?

From Vanity Fair, William Langewiesche on The Mega-Bunker of Baghdad: The new U.S. Embassy in Iraq may be fortified to the teeth and lavished with all the amenities, but it sure isn’t built for diplomacy. From Salon, an article on the Battle of the Bushes; how George Bush really found Jesus; how Cheney took control of Bush's foreign policy: Excerpts from The Fall of the House of Bush: The Untold Story of How a Band of True Believers Seized the Executive Branch, Started the Iraq War, and Still Imperils America's Future by Craig Unger. How Bush saved Iran’s neocons: Not long ago, Tehran’s hardliners were just one faction among many. But a series of diplomatic blunders by the Bush administration has put these guardians of Iran’s Islamic Revolution in the driver’s seat—and made war much more likely. Pervez W. Busharraf: The language Musharraf uses to justify his state of emergency seems lifted from Republican talking points. Can Pervez Musharraf hang tough in Islamabad? An interview with Najam Sethi, editor of Pakistan's Daily Times. Jazz, Rock 'n' Roll, and Diplomacy: Can American culture make Muslims love us? The Revolt of the Comic Books: America's superheroes take on preemptive war, torture, warrantless spying, and George W. himself.