Shades of PNAC: Bill Kristol, Robert Kagan, Paul Wolfowitz, etc. urge action on Libya (2/25)

[Hannah Bell]

The Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI) is headed by Weekly Standard publisher William Kristol, foreign policy consultant Robert Kagan, and former Bush administration official Dan Senor...

Many see the FPI as the logical successor to Kristol and Kagan’s previous neoconservative organization, the now-defunct Project for the New American Century. PNAC’s membership roll included many prominent Bush administration officials, including then-Vice President Dick Cheney and the Defense Department’s top two officials, Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz.

http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=dan_senor_1.


Foreign Policy Experts Urge President to Take Action to Halt Violence in Libya

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Forty-five former U.S. government officials, human rights and democracy advocates, and foreign policy experts expressed concern Friday regarding the ongoing crisis in Libya, urging President Obama, in conjunction with NATO allies, to take action to end the violence being propagated by the regime of Muammar al-Qaddafi.

In an open letter to President Obama, the bipartisan group outlined several specific actions the United States and NATO should take in response the ongoing violence including establishment of a presence in Libyan airspace and waters to prevent the use of regime air and naval assets against civilians, the freezing of Libyan government assets, and consideration of a temporary halt to importation of Libyan oil, as well as immediate provision of humanitarian aid. The group wrote that failure to take action “will cast doubt on the commitment of the United States and Europe to basic principles of human rights and freedom.” The letter notes that “There is no time for delay and indecisiveness” and that “clear U.S. leadership” is required.

The signatories include Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI) Directors Eric Edelman, Robert Kagan, William Kristol, and Dan Senor as well as former Bush and Clinton administration human rights and foreign policy officials and other experts.

http://www.foreignpolicyi.org/content/foreign-policy-experts-urge-president-take-action-halt-violence-libya-0






Here are the signatories to the letter. Those with * are also PNAC signatories, contributors or staff. There are other interesting characters on the list too,like Dan Senor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Senor



Elliott Abrams*

Stephen E. Biegun
Max Boot
Ellen Bork*

Scott Carpenter
Eliot Cohen*
Seth Cropsey*

Larry Diamond
Thomas Donnelly*
Michelle Dunne

Eric Edelman

Peter Feaver
Jamie Fly

Reuel Marc Gerecht*

John Hannah
Neil Hicks

William Inboden

Bruce Pitcairn Jackson*
Ash Jain

Robert Kagan*
David Kramer
Irina Krasovskaya
William Kristol*

Tod Lindberg*

Michael Makovsky
Ann Marlowe
Cliff May*
Joshua Muravchik*

Martin Peretz*
Danielle Pletka
John Podhoretz** (Father Norm & mom Midge Decter were PNAC signatories)

Randy Scheunemann*
Dan Senor
John Shattuck
Mike Singh
Gare Smith

William Taft
Marc Thiessen
Daniel Twining

Pete Wehner
Ken Weinstein
Leon Wieseltier*
Damon Wilson
Jennifer Windsor
Paul Wolfowitz*


I count it as 38% of signatories = former PNAC.


PNAC:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:6lraJqXI87UJ:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century+pnac+signatories&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&source=www.google.com

[Wilms]

1. KnR

Thanks for posting this.

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. Libya was on the PNAC short list 10 years ago.

These guys are all about leveraging any & all pretexts to topple governments that don't dance to their tune. It's alomost like a reveng thing with them, they don't give a shit about the consequences.

[Hannah Bell]

11. I think all our supposed "friends" in the Middle East should note that Khaddafi's

rapprochement with the west didn't do him much good.

Also find it interesting that the PNAC crowd, Lieberman & McCain, & some of the clinton crowd were calling for no-fly zones & such within 10 days of the start of the libyan "rebellion".

That's fast.

"The situation began as a series of protests and confrontations on 15 February 2011"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Libyan_uprising

[Rosa Luxemburg]

3. The PNACers are salivating at the thought of war! WARMONGERS!!!

[opihimoimoi]

4. Great...the GOPers are trying to confuse us by splitting into 3 Groups...

Boner, McConnel and regular Pubs

TeaBaggers...the whacky croud

and Neocons....Bushies ole gang

[guruoo]

5. Funny this wasn't brought up back when DU was 'save the Libyans' city

[Starry Messenger]

6. k&r

[inna]

7. but of course. that's the whole reason for "us" being there.

how anyone can believe the "humanitarian" pretext/smokescreen of this "intervention" is... just mind-boggling. :shrug:

[leftstreet]

8. K&R

[Catherina]

9. Rinse, lather, repeat. Rec'd n/t

[suffragette]

10. Important find

K&R

[Hannah Bell]

12. k

[Hannah Bell]

13. kick

[Runework]

14. food for thought

The problem with this narrative is that the neoconservatives, who were primarily responsible for launching the war on terror as well as the invasion and occupation of Iraq, have by and large not viewed chaos in this manner. For them, chaos has been not just an inevitable consequence of globalization, but a phenomenon that might be well used to further their long-term agenda of remaking the Middle East in America's image. Indeed, as they saw it, it was only natural for the world's first true hyperpower to adopt a historically well-tested policy of "creative destruction." Their goal, as explained in the now famous comment of an anonymous administration official, was to "create our own reality" wherever we tread. ("We're history's actors," he continued, "and all of you will be left to just study what we do.")

http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/30881/