In case you missed it: The Project For A New American Century.

[go west young man]

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1665.htm

Excerpt:02/25/03 -- - The Project for the New American Century, or PNAC, is a Washington-based think tank created in 1997. Above all else, PNAC desires and demands one thing: The establishment of a global American empire to bend the will of all nations. They chafe at the idea that the United States, the last remaining superpower, does not do more by way of economic and military force to bring the rest of the world under the umbrella of a new socio-economic Pax Americana.

The fundamental essence of PNAC's ideology can be found in a White Paper produced in September of 2000 entitled "Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century." In it, PNAC outlines what is required of America to create the global empire they envision. According to PNAC, America must:
* Reposition permanently based forces to Southern Europe, Southeast Asia and the Middle East;
* Modernize U.S. forces, including enhancing our fighter aircraft, submarine and surface fleet capabilities;
* Develop and deploy a global missile defense system, and develop a strategic dominance of space;
* Control the "International Commons" of cyberspace;
* Increase defense spending to a minimum of 3.8 percent of gross domestic product, up from the 3 percent currently spent.


Pertinent reading even though Neocons claim that PNAC no longer exists. It operates through AEI (The American Enterprise Institute).

[G_j]

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k&r

[alfredo]

2. Their ideas might have looked good on paper, but when bush and cheney

tried to apply them to the real world, it was a disaster of monumental scale. bush/cheney + PNAC = disaster