The PNAC philosophy was formed in response to the ending of Cold War hostilities with Russia and the emergence of America as the world's only preeminent superpower. Claiming that this is a "strategic moment" that should not be squandered, members of PNAC say that America should use its position to advance its power and interests into all areas of the globe. They believe the time is ripe for establishing democracies in regimes considered hostile to U.S. interests and are not hesitant to advise the use of military means to achieve those ends.
PNAC members on the Bush team include Vice-President Dick Cheney and his top national security assistant, I. Lewis Libby; Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld; Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz; National Security Council member Eliot Abrams; Undersecretary for Arms Control and International Security John Bolton; and former Chairman of the Defense Policy Board, Richard Perle. Other PNAC members exerting influence on U.S. policy are the President of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq Randy Scheunemann, Republican Party leader Bruce Jackson and current PNAC chairman William Kristol, conservative writer for the Weekly Standard. Jeb Bush, the president's brother and governor of Florida, is also a member.
Their campaign to overthrow Hussein was unsuccessful during the Clinton presidency and early days of Bush's term, but on 9/11 they found the event they needed to push for the overthrow of Hussein. Within 24 hours both Wolfowitz and Cheney were calling for an invasion of Iraq, even before anyone knew who had been responsible for the attacks.
Individuals who now belong to PNAC have been influencing White House policy since the Reagan era, calling for coups in Central America and claiming that a nuclear war with Russia could be "winnable." Richard Perle is one of their most prominent spokesmen. He and Michael Ledeen (of the American Enterprise Institute), who is currently lobbying for war with Syria and Iran, have adopted a stance that they call "total war" — the ability to wage multiple simultaneous wars around the globe to achieve American ends. Recently Perle commented on America's war on terrorism: "No stages," he said, "This is total war. We are fighting a variety of enemies. There are lots of them out there. All this talk about first we are going to do Afghanistan, then we will do Iraq . . . this is entirely the wrong way to go about it. If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy, but just wage a total war . . . our children will sing great songs about us years from now."
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911truthncDotOrg 2 months ago
See Operation North Woods. They take an event (often orchestrated) to justify a response (often repressive) to establish a hidden agenda that actually has nothing to do with what is propagandized. The Reichstag fire was used as an excuse for implementation of the Enabling Act. So too 9-11 gave way to the enabling of the Patriot Act. Don't think for one minute that what they are doing to the Iraqi people, they will not do to American citizens (i.e. military breaking down American doors).
CrimsonSword36669 7 months ago
@TABOOVSKNOWLEDGE WE NOTHING.....it's the Eliteist banking cartel that is to blame...unfortunately, the world will only see Americans are to blame and not those truly responsible for this treason who are the puppeteers pulling the strings of these neocons!
timo092601 10 months ago
so the exact words of america to afghanistan were: "either we will provide you with a carpet of gold, otherwise we will bury you in a carptet of bombs" ?
jrh767 1 year ago
We are a sad lot!
TABOOVSKNOWLEDGE 2 years ago