PNAC is Reborn as The Foreign Policy Initiative

[bananas]

PNAC is Reborn as The Foreign Policy Initiative

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Foreign Policy Initiative

The Foreign Policy Initiative is a Washington D.C.-based advocacy group (FPI) that was founded in early 2009 by several high-profile neoconservative figures. The group is similar in its aims and operations to an earlier neoconservative-advocacy initiative, the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), a now defunct letterhead organization associated with the American Enterprise Institute that played a singular role in advocating the U.S. invasion of Iraq after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. 1 As a successor to PNAC, FPI is devoted to promoting an aggressive U.S. security posture in the post-George W. Bush era.

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Like its predecessor, PNAC, FPI apparently aims to build alliances across ideological lines through the mechanics of open sign-on letters supporting particular stances on key foreign policy issues. In early July 2009, for example, FPI released an open-letter to President Barack Obama urging him to promote human rights during his summit in Russia with President Dmitry Medvedev. Among the signatories to the letter were several long-standing neoconservative associates, including Max Boot, Jeffrey Gedmin, Carl Gershman, Max Kampelman, Bruce Jackson, Clifford May, Danielle Pletka, Randy Scheunemann, Gary Schmitt, Peter Wehner, and James Woolsey. In addition to these names, however, were those of several well known human rights and civil liberties experts, like Larry Cox of Amnesty International-USA, Clinton administration official Morton Halperin, and Stephen Rickard of the Open Society Institute.6

Commenting on the letter, Jim Lobe of the Inter Press Service wrote, “That several genuine human rights activists … should have chosen to associate themselves with such a group is remarkable and offers additional evidence that Kagan and Kristol are trying to reconstruct the neocon/liberal coalition that pressed the Clinton administration to intervene in the Balkans during the late 1990s. … o the extent that prominent liberals publicly endorse it, neoconservatives … regain respectability.”7

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[Octafish]

1. Thanks for the heads-up, bananas. These warmongering traitors need to face Justice.

Changing the face, but not what lies beneath is PR 101:
The spooks and crooks for hire at Blackwater changed their name to Xe Services.
Most people don't know the history of the former, let alone the connection to the latter.

Perception management. Works most all the time.

[Festivito]

6. And AIG changed to 21st Century Insurance. /nt

[conscious evolution]

9. Perception management

Great link.
Should be required reading for everyone.

[Lasher]

2. Human rights is another neocon 'noble lie'.

Irving Kristol and other neocons pretended to believe in creationism/intelligent design to get the fundies to support them. It worked and they used the fundies while laughing at them behind their backs at the White House.

If you think neocons are really concerned about human rights, as youself how well that cause was served by their adventure in Iraq that has left a million people dead. All they really care about is their agenda of world conquest and any human rights activist who supports them is being played for a fool.

[livvy]

3. Check out the profiles.

Gee, seems like I've seen these same names listed somewhere else: Abrams, Addington, the Cheney clan, Ashcroft, Bremer, two Borks, Jeb, Cambone, Chertoff, Gingrich, just to name a few. Talk about a list of people who should be on the Post Office most wanted wall.

http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profiles/category/individuals

[Occam Bandage]

4. Damn, you mean neoconservative writers and thinkers didn't all magically disappear after 2008?

Here I thought that intellectual movements died forever once they lost a single election.

[redqueen]

5. So not surprising.

Deceitful, evil little shits.

[PainPerdu]

8. Perception vs. Reality

Oh,oh, sounds like Frank Luntz is working overtime these days.....

[KoKo]

7. I give to Amnesty Interntational....I find this hard to believe

unless it's been infiltrated. They won't get another check.