PNAC

[h&s]

Has anyone got the exerpts from the Project for the New Americn Century that call for an invasion of Iraq 'regardless of the regime of Saddam Hussein' and the bit where it says something about the need for a 'Pearl Harbour like' event to persuade the public of the need for the war?
I can find a .pdf of the whole thing but not the exerpts in context.

[Morpheus]

The Project for a New American Century is a right-wing organization (a think tank) with lots of big influencial people as members. It's one of several elite planning groups. This organization has published a number of documents. I'm guessing your'e referring to their "Rebuilding America's Defenses" report, which is basically a blueprint for Bush's foreign policy. This is the document leftists usually mean when they refer to PNAC. Some quotes are:

"At Present the United States faces no global rival. America's grand strategy should be to preserve and extend this advantageous position as far into the future as possible."

"The United States as an unprecedented strategic opportunity. It faces no immediate great-power challenge; it is blessed with wealthy, powerful and democratic allies in every part of the world; it is in the midst of the longest economic expansion in its history; and its political and economic principles are almost universally embraced. At no time in history has the international security order been as conducive to American interests and ideals. The challenge for the coming century is to preserve and enhance this 'American peace.'"

"Indeed, the United States has for decades sought to play a more permanent role in Gulf regional security. While the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate justification, the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein."

"New Circumstances make us think that the report might have a more receptive audience now than in recent years ... the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary [sic] change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event like a new Pearl Harbor."

See also the article posted at http://flag.blackened.net/forums/viewtopic...3305236#3305236 (http://flag.blackened.net/forums/viewtopic.php?p=3305236#3305236)

[h&s]

Thanks. I was rather dreading having to trawl through the whole .pdf just for a few short phrases!
:)