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billh58

(6,655 posts)
Wed Jul 10, 2024, 04:42 PM Jul 2024

Project 2025 Reminds Me of PNAC (Project For a New American Century)

Although PNAC's main focus was Foreign Policy with the Neocons wanting to go to war with the Middle East, the methods and vitriol of P2025 are very similar. For those who are not familiar with PNAC, here's a refresher from Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century

Excerpt: Stating that American policy "cannot continue to be crippled by a misguided insistence on unanimity in the UN Security Council", the letter's signatories asserted that "the U.S. has the authority under existing UN resolutions to take the necessary steps, including military steps, to protect our vital interests in the Gulf"

Neocons and right-wing fascists attempting to take over government foreign policy then, and now domestic policy with P2025.
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Project 2025 Reminds Me of PNAC (Project For a New American Century) (Original Post) billh58 Jul 2024 OP
Everything old is new again. shrike3 Jul 2024 #1
I remember PNAC awesomerwb1 Jul 2024 #2
+1 TheRealNorth Jul 2024 #4
This is the real deal...................... Lovie777 Jul 2024 #3
Yep and several of the creators of it were in W's administration themaguffin Jul 2024 #5
Original site still on wayback machine Caribbeans Jul 2024 #6
Look at PNAC original founders (Cheney, Kagan and Kristol) and you can see that it's purpose was blind, unwavering and.. EarnestPutz Jul 2024 #7

awesomerwb1

(5,000 posts)
2. I remember PNAC
Wed Jul 10, 2024, 04:48 PM
Jul 2024

I still have the pdf. document in one of my laptops somewhere. My favorite part re: "transformation" in the "Gulf": ""Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor."

Enter 9/11.

Lovie777

(21,893 posts)
3. This is the real deal......................
Wed Jul 10, 2024, 04:49 PM
Jul 2024

it's not propaganda. We need to counter the RW propaganda with this and other lies.

Caribbeans

(1,285 posts)
6. Original site still on wayback machine
Wed Jul 10, 2024, 04:59 PM
Jul 2024


https://web.archive.org/web/20030524095520/http://newamericancentury.org/

From the Wikipedia link:

During mid-1996, Kristol and Kagan co-authored an article in Foreign Affairs titled "Toward a Neo-Reaganite Foreign Policy" - referring to the foreign policy of President Ronald Reagan. In the article, they argued that American conservatives were "adrift" in the area of foreign policy, advocated a "more elevated vision of America's international role", and suggested that the United States' should adopt a stance of "benevolent global hegemony."[20] In June 1997, Kristol and Kagan founded the PNAC in order to advance the goals they had first laid out in Foreign Affairs, echoing the article's statements and goals in PNAC's founding Statement of Principles.[19]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century


Guess who Kagan's wife is? LINK

Guess what the first PNAC war was?

PNAC is one of the top organizations that have changed the very essence of the nation.

What would George Washington have thought about these pathetic disgusting pirates?

“Further, the process of transformation (of the military), even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event—like a new Pearl Harbor.” PNAC policy report “Rebuilding America’s Defenses”, September 2000



 

EarnestPutz

(2,843 posts)
7. Look at PNAC original founders (Cheney, Kagan and Kristol) and you can see that it's purpose was blind, unwavering and..
Wed Jul 10, 2024, 05:16 PM
Jul 2024

.....limitless support for Israel. End of story.

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