'New American Century' Project Ends With a Whimper

'New American Century' Project Ends With a Whimper

by Jim Lobe

Is the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), which did so much to promote the invasion of Iraq and an Israel-centered"global war on terror," closing down?

In the absence of an official announcement and the failure since late last year of a live person to answer its telephone number, a Washington Post obituary would seem to be definitive. And, sure enough, the Post quoted one unidentified source presumably linked to PNAC that the group was "heading toward closing" with the feeling of "goal accomplished."

In fact, the 9-year-old group, whose 27 founders included Vice President Dick Cheney and Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld, among at least half a dozen of the most powerful hawks in the George W. Bush administration's first term, has been inactive since January 2005, when it issued the last of its "statements," an appeal to significantly increase the size of the U.S. Army and Marine Corps to cope with the growing demands of the kind of "Pax Americana" it had done so much to promote.

As a platform for the three-part coalition that was most enthusiastic about war in Iraq – aggressive nationalists like Cheney, Christian Zionists of the religious Right, and Israel-centered neoconservatives – PNAC actually began breaking down shortly after the Iraq invasion.

It was then that the group's predominantly neoconservative leadership – Weekly Standard editor William Kristol, PNAC director Gary Schmitt, and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace analyst Robert Kagan – began attacking Rumsfeld, in particular, for failing to deploy enough troops to pacify the country and launch a true nation-building exercise, as in post-World War II Germany and Japan.


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http://www.antiwar.com/lobe/?articleid=9132

clusterfuck in living memory, what's left for them to do now?

payer money.....if we are lucky we will see them in front of a courtroom...

fighting out in the middle of the street one night...

"fuck you you fucker..."

May each one of these war mongerers rot in hell.

Here's to the death of PNAC

We'll know them by another name at a later date.

Oh yeah, FUCK THE PNAC!

"paper tigers" don't have initiative...people do. And the people behind PNAC are alive and kicking. Their venality and feral sociopathy has not dimmed in the slightest. They will reformulate under another front group as necessary...and offer up a new and improved "figurehead" to replace the disfunctional Bushbot. This is no time to let down our guard.

Snaggletooth the Crone

people know about the organization now, and it's lousy reputation.

Time to squirm back into the bureaucracy and create a new org. :puke:

Skinner ADMIN (1000+ posts)

Thu Jun-22-06 08:03 PM
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This Group has been selected for possible deletion in 7 days. Please Read.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=307

Though this group has posted some great articles, we just don't have the traffic to go on.

Goodbye PNAC and Neocon Agenda Group.

:patriot:

that the PNAC has essentially been reconstituted as one or more other organizations . . . can't seem to find it, though . . .

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=New_Citizenship_Project

It shares the same address as PNAC, and it is interesting to note that John McCain once was president and is associated with NCP. So is McCain the new PNAC candidate to carry on the plan? Perhaps something to use in the future, should he become the candidate. I don't think he will though.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x956104

after the "Committee for a Strong Europe" seemed to fizzle (though it was the stories about the CfaSE that had the phrases suggesting the PNAC was shutting down). Sure enough, the HJS has now come out with:



As I said in the linked thread

that they don't morph into something even worse. They've had their taste of victory and power with a cooperative regime like Dubya's. They'll only want more.

Corporate coffers filled, taxpayers fleeced, new energy sources seized.

He almost said, "mission accomplished."