Neo-Con Unfurls the Big Picture

[The2ndWheel]

http://www.counterpunch.org/wheeler06132005.html

It was shall we say, an interesting experience. I would not call it mind-expanding, but there definitely were many stretched neurons in the Wohlsetter Conference Room at AEI that day.

The pretext was the coming forth of a pamphlet by Donnelly, "The Military We Need," available for free at http://www.aei.org/books/ The UPI review of this work handed out at the event says Donnelly "transcends easy labels" including "neo-conservative," "nationalist," and "neo-imperialist." While the terminology may seem a bit too polite, it is also incomplete.

In his pamphlet, Donnelly cites his goals for Bush Administration policy. These I see as surrogates for what the neo-conservatives (for lack of a better term, right now) as a group see as the next stage of their policy advocacy. Given what Donnelly called Bush's "rapid success" in Afghanistan and the "last legs" on which Vice President Cheney now sees the insurgents in Iraq so wobbily staggering, what, do you wonder, have these authors of American policy for the last five years mapped out for us in the future?

Donnelly wants five things:

[bemildred]

1. Donnelly "transcends easy labels"

Does "clueless idiot" work?

[bananas]

2. correct url for the booklet

The article didn't have the correct url for the booklet, it's at
http://www.aei.org/books/bookID.819/book_detail.asp

If you liked "Rebuilding America's Defenses",
you'll love the sequel!

Among other things, it calls for 125,000 more troops.

[Lexingtonian]

3. sounds like

keeping the Cold War running forever, focussed on the Middle East and China.

That's so imaginative I cou :boring:

[yurbud]

4. it would be cheaper to spend money on alternative energy

then we can let everybody else do whatever the hell they want.