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 bjornskimn rated 29 months ago - From the page: "The George W. Bush years in the White House have been branded by an almost paranoid focus on the trappings of American power. The Project for a New American Century (PNAC), including among its authors and advocates the cream of the Bush team, set as the administration goal an o...
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- bjornskimn rated 29 months ago
- From the page: "The George W. Bush years in the White House have been branded by an almost paranoid focus on the trappings of American power. The Project for a New American Century (PNAC), including among its authors and advocates the cream of the Bush team, set as the administration goal an outright global dominance to be achieved by military power. The assumption was that America, as the sole global superpower, could do this because, as stated by US Ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad in an April 2006 interview with the LA Times, "this is our destiny, given our preponderance in the world, our role in the world, and because of our successes."
But our "preponderance" in the world has slowly declined in recent decades. Since the changes have been gradual, perhaps PNAC promoters may be forgiven for not having noticed, but the attributes of American power have changed remarkably, and it is prudent to examine closely just what those changes mean. First, however, it is worth considering a pattern of counterintuitive actions."
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