Has anyone heard of this organization? Apparently, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Perle, and a few others are charter members. Below is an extract that the Sunday Herald ran:
http://www.sundayherald.com/print27735
I haven’t had a chance to read the actual document it refers to, but plan on it. Has anyone seen/read it, and what do you think?
If half of what the article above suggests is true, this adds a whole new element (in my mind, anyway), to our current state of affairs.
Anyway… yeah, I’ve read this document and it’s an eye-opener. Of course, the ideas in it aren’t anything new - they were first set down in a Defense Policy Guidance written by Paul Wolfowitz (who was then Cheney’s deputy at the Pentagon and is now deputy secretary of defense) in 1992. It got leaked to the press, caused an outcry, and got buried. But it’s back - and served as the basis for Bush’s National Defense Strategy. Essentially, this trio of documents is
While the authors admit that this program might actually cause friction both at home and abroad, and become a long, drawn-out process to boot, they posit that there might be a way of sidestepping the issue:
Which they got with September 11th. Now, this is not to say that the Bush administration (or the PNAC) knew it was going to happen, or that they orchestrated this event to allow them to kick this program into high gear. The point is that they’re using it as a pretext for accelerating the process and hiding it behind the curtains of “war on terrorism” and “promoting peace and justice”.