america: and how we got that way
new category! bad news! good times!
just saving them here until I can get my head clear enough to slog through the bad times of the new usa.
Similarly the PNAC blueprint of September 2000 states that the process of transforming the US into "tomorrow's dominant force" is
likely to be a long one in the absence of "some catastrophic and catalyzing event - like a new Pearl Harbor". The 9/11 attacks allowed the US to press the "go" button for a strategy in accordance with the PNAC agenda which it would otherwise have been politically impossible to implement.
The report describes American armed forces abroad as 'the cavalry on the new American frontier'. The PNAC blueprint supports an earlier document written by Wolfowitz and Libby that said the US must 'discourage advanced industrial nations from challenging our leadership or even aspiring to a larger regional or global role'.
thanks to fraction for the heads up
Posted by xtop at September 11, 2003 12:57 PM
