I hear a lot of talk about how the Project for a New American Century is responsible for Bush’s foreign policy. Some even blame them for being behind 9/11. With so much hay being made about PNAC, I thought I’d introduce you to the initial signatories to their founding document.
The following signatories need no introduction:
Gary Bauer, William J. Bennett, Jeb Bush, Dick Cheney, Steve Forbes, Dan Quayle, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz.
The rest are below the fold.
Paula J. Dobriansky, Under Secretary, Global Affairs.
Elliott Abrams,Deputy National Security Adviser.
Eliot Cohen Defense Policy Board
Aaron Friedberg, Vice President Cheney’s Deputy National Security Adviser
Peter W. Rodman, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs.
Henry S. Rowen, Defense Policy Board.
I scrolled through those photos, imagining they were mug shots.
they cannot be frog-marched quickly enough.
Indeed. Frog marched and forced to live the rest of thei natural lives in shame. Shame for what they have done to this nation. Shame for corrupting the constitution to discriminate and hate. Shame for the murders and corruption. Ugh….
I found these selected texts from their “Statement of Principles” to be interesting…in an ironic sort of way…I guess it’s all in who’s saying it, eh?<shudders with disgust>
Father of CNN GOP shill Daryn Kagan, perhaps?
googling around a bit, i finally came across this DU post where somebody else had the same notion. Note: the discussion on that post concerns her new friendship with the Limbaugh Looney. You’ve been warned.
Next, i found the same question at this North Carolina IMC post about New Pentagon plans to conquer nations, secure oil, advance globalization, militarize space, from last March.
Emphasis all theirs. Go read it – i’ll wait.
I found this curious page with her bio, and a link to Donald Kagan quotes. For the curious: "War has been more common than peace, and extended periods of peace have been rare in a world divided into multiple states." Hmmm, weighty stuff, Don. But we’re still not there.
Asked again here. No conclusion.
So, anyone got the skinny on this?
The publicly visible foundation on which these people stand is the Reagan Administration.
But you have to also go back to the talk radio movement whenever it began, Coors helping start the Heritage Foundation in the early 70’s, and fundamentalist Christians organizing in the late 60’s (I have a Newsweek article about it from the week before the hippies converged on San Francisco).
America was in very, very deep doo-doo when Bush took his first oath.
our best hope at the UN if Bolton isn’t recess-appointed? Oh crap.
that shadowy bunch of dudes doing deals with aliens on the x-files.
I watched Fox News Sunday (blech!) and was shocked to hear Kristol blasting Rove! Kristol is a major PNAC dude (although not listed on the original signatories, he is the Chairman….)
So why would he blast Rove? Any ideas? Perhaps there is some division among the neo-cons?
all dumbasses are Republicans
Alas, if only it were so!!!!
8^)
To this day the media refuses to discuss The Project For a New American Century, and when they do, they usually position it as a wild “conspiracy theory” concocted by the crazy left. That despite the fact that these Neocons maintain a web site that is still up that openly espouses their philosophy which is today official U.S. foreign policy and is called the “Bush Doctrine.” Numerous articles and speeches adorn the internet by these individuals that also espoused their philosophy. Those original members, by the way, were signatories to an open letter to Bill Clinton placed as a paid advertisement in major media outlets calling, among other things, for regime change in Iraq. That was in 1997, I believe.
My own theory as to why the media is so reluctant to discuss the PNAC is that one of their position papers conceded that their vision was unlikely to ever become official U.S. policy unless our country should befall a major catastrophe on the scale of “a new Pearl Harbor.”