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prayan visser
Did you see the story in mother jones, latest online edtion, here is synopsis;
Three decades ago, in the throes of the energy crisis, Washington’s hawks conceived of a strategy for US control of the Persian Gulf’s oil. Now, with the same strategists firmly in control of the White House, the Bush administration is playing out their script for global dominance.
By Robert Dreyfuss and here the link:
http://motherjones.com/news/feature/2003/10/ma_273_01.html
another good overview of the long standing cabal, including the connection to earlier rightwing zealots, is here:
http://www.prospect.org/print/V12/19/vest-j.html
here is a sample:
As a doctoral student at the University of Chicago in the late 1960s, Wolfowitz became the prot�g� of Albert Wohlstetter�a veteran of the RAND think tank, arguably the intellectual godfather to Cold War hawks, and a conservative who viewed any form of d�tente and disarmament as virtually tantamount to treason. But before Wolfowitz was none other than Perle, another star pupil, who had dated Wohlstetter’s daughter back in high school. Later, in 1969, Wohlstetter got Perle a gig in Washington as executive director of the Committee to Maintain a Prudent Defense Policy, which sprang up to fight the Nixon administration’s efforts to craft an anti-ballistic missile treaty with the Russians.
These were heady times in Washington for the hawks. It wasn’t long before young Wolfowitz quit a teaching post at Yale University in order to join them: In 1973, he arrived to work at the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. The nexus of the antidisarmament network in those days was the office of Henry “Scoop” Jackson, the hawkish Democratic senator from Washington; Perle quickly amassed tremendous power as Jackson’s top aide. Wohlstetter’s two prize pupils soon became friends and allies in the crusade against arms control–and for the eventual ascension of Ronald Reagan. While Perle established himself on Capitol Hill through repeated bureaucratic attacks on disarmament advocates and Pentagon budget-cutters, Wolfowitz served on “Team B”–a study group drawn largely from the ranks of the Committee on the Present Danger that, once given access to classified CIA data, used a highly politicized methodology to conclude that the Soviet Union was militarily poised to overwhelm the United States.
Somewhat bizarrely, Wolfowitz was still seeing red after the Soviet Union’s collapse: In 1992, during his waning days as undersecretary of defense in George H.W. Bush’s administration, Wolfowitz penned a secret memo that earnestly depicted the Russia of Boris Yeltsin as the direst threat to American national security and further called for war between the Russians and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization if the former tried to menace the newly liberated Baltic nations. During the Gulf War, Wolfowitz was infuriated with then?General Colin Powell and others who believed that once the UN mandate of expelling Saddam’s forces from Kuwait was fulfilled, the war was effectively over; Wolfowitz wanted to go to Baghdad and destroy Saddam completely. Prior to September 11, he was talking up China as the new threat.
To those who knew and worked with Wolfowitz’s mentor, Wohlstetter, none of this is surprising. “Albert believed he was put here on earth to be a man who would increase the security of the United States at the expense of those who threatened that security, and he was never going to be satisfied until there was nobody around at all who owned a slingshot that would allow them to be a potential David against the American Goliath,” says Jude Wanniski, the father of supply-side economics and a former Wohlstetter acolyte who broke with his fellow hawks after the Cold War. “He basically believed that was the only way for a truly secure peace�and that America was the only country that could get a secure peace for the world. And part of that means, if you look down the road and see a war with, say, China, 20 years off, go to war now.”
For almost 30 years, says Wanniski, Wolfowitz and Perle have complemented each other nicely as Wohlstetterian partisans, with Perle playing the tactician and Wolfowitz the more circumspect scholar. But around the end of the Gulf War, Wolfowitz was anything but circumspect, arguing not only for a final push to Baghdad but, later and more vociferously, for fielding U.S. forces in support of the ill-fated Kurdish and Shia intifadas against Saddam. Since then, he’s backed all possible funding and support for the Iraqi National Congress, a hopelessly ineffectual expatriate (and, many say, corrupt) opposition group.
Donna Kain
The PNAC website seems to have disappeared. Also, there were no cached pages in my temporary internet files from when I was there several days ago. Anyone know anything about what happened to their site?
GreyLmist
Learn and Live, America - Recommendations
PNAC.info - Exposing the Project for the New American Century
http://groups.msn.com/LearnandLiveAmerica/recommendations.msnw?action=get_message&mview=0&ID_Message=1112&LastModified=4675417052504226533
Click link @ Message 2: PNAC - targeting genotypes transforms bio-warfare to a politically useful tool
@ Message 3:
A Willful Blindness
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Articles2/Monbiot_WillfulBlindness.htm
14. On page 72 of the document Rebuilding America’s Defenses (ibid) is the following sentiment: “And advanced forms of biological warfare that can ‘target’ specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool.
GreyLmist
Sorry about the text spread caused by the length of the first link above. I’d edit the post or delete and repost it to adjust the margins by deactivating the path but there isn’t an option here for that. If management can make the correction so other comments are easier to read without scrolling back and forth, please do and thanks for making your site available to alert the public about PNAC.
corey
As posted earlier, www.newamericancentury.org seems to have gone awol… any word yet on the status?
It would be “strange” if the very same resource that is the ultimate underlying foundation of the current administration’s foreign policy suddenly disappears…
jess
this is a page from the website
they offer searching of documents and then will auto extract all names from a document and list any names with links to other (possibly damning)
documents. this is a great site and it is free.
I did this to the {statement of principles }
from the PNAC.
i hope this helps .
POWER TO THE PEACEFUL!
[email protected]
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This list is an attempt to auto-extract proper names from http://newamericancentury.org/statementofprinciples.htm
The names on the left are from the document, and the names on the right are possible matches, and the number of pages cited, from NameBase.
Abrams, Elliott
ABRAMS ELLIOTT L 166
Bauer, Gary
BAUER GARY L 35
Bennett, William J.
BENNETT WILLIAM J 61
Bush, Jeb
Cheney, Dick
CHENEY RICHARD (HILL & KNOWLTON) 1
CHENEY RICHARD B 81
Cohen, Eliot A.
COHEN ELIOT A 12
Decter, Midge
DECTER MIDGE 45
Dobriansky, Paula
DOBRIANSKY PAULA J 8
East, Middle
Forbes, Steve
FORBES STEVE 1
Friedberg, Aaron
FRIEDBERG AARON LOUIS 4
Fukuyama, Francis
FUKUYAMA FRANCIS 23
Gaffney, Frank
GAFFNEY FRANCIS J (FBI) 1
GAFFNEY FRANK J JR 22
Ikle, Fred C.
IKLE FRED CHARLES 88
Kagan, Donald
KAGAN DONALD 8
Khalilzad, Zalmay
KHALILZAD ZALMAY M 14
Libby, I. Lewis
LIBBY I LEWIS (SCOOTER) 13
Podhoretz, Norman
PODHORETZ NORMAN 85
Quayle, Dan
QUAYLE DAN 106
Rodman, Peter W.
RODMAN PETER W 33
Rosen, Stephen P.
ROSEN STEPHEN PETER (HARVARD) 4
Rowen, Henry S.
ROWEN HENRY S 40
Rumsfeld, Donald
RUMSFELD DONALD H 93
Weber, Vin
WEBER VIN (R-MN) 16
Weigel, George
WEIGEL GEORGE 27
Wolfowitz, Paul
WOLFOWITZ PAUL D 64
Back to home page
http://www.namebase.org
Don
he True State of Black America
Toward a Just and Peaceful World
by CYNTHIA McKINNEY
http://www.counterpunch.com/mckinney05202003.html
She quotes from “Rebuilding America’s Defenses, p. 60″
“[A]dvanced forms of biological warfare that can ‘target’ specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool.”
The obvious implication here is that racial genocide is discussed in a calm, rational way as a “useful tool.”
Maria
These two were written by myself (!) as I’m researching PNAC for my doctoral thesis. First one is an analysis of the full scope of PNAc’s agenda and the second is a draft of a journal article about the manipulation of intelligence post-9/11 in order to justify the implemenatation of a pre-existing agenda — of which PNAC was one of the leading proponents. This one is quite long and deals with lots of other stuff too. The final draft (which reads much better than this one!) is in the current edition of the journal Intelligence & National Security.
maria
Sorry — the addresses didn’t seem to make it through las time. Here they are:
http://www.nthposition.com/politics_ryan2.html
and: http://artsweb.bham.ac.uk/49thparallel/currentissue/coll_mariaryan.htm
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