The letter is famous (or infamous) by now. It was written on behalf of members of the Project for a New American Century and signed by people like Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, and Richard Perle. These people felt that Bill Clinton needed a good talking to and laid out their grand strategy for what amounts to post-soviet world domination.
The world would be safer without Saddam Hussein, they argued. The middle east would be stabilized and the world's only superpower would have one less global problem to worry about.
"It hardly needs to be added that if Saddam does acquire the capability to deliver weapons of mass destruction, as he is almost certain to do if we continue along the present course, the safety of American troops in the region, of our friends and allies like Israel and the moderate Arab states, and a significant portion of the world’s supply of oil will all be put at hazard," the PNAC visionaries wrote -- with emphasis on Israel, being the only nation mentioned by name in the paragraph.
Things didn't turn out that way. Saddam is gone and the middle east is worse off -- less stable and far more anti-US than it's ever been.
And Israel? Turns out they're worse off as well...
[CLICK TO READ FULL POST]
Tags: news | politics | war | Iraq | Iran | Israel | Syria | Bush | terrorism | disaster | morons | middle east
Saturday, January 13, 2007
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Search Archive:
Custom Search
1 comments:
There are muslim nuts, jewish nuts, and christian nuts.
It was the true believers who got us into this mess and the true believers aren't the ones who'll get us out of it.
As far as I'm concerned, everyone can take their gods into the closet and shut the hell up about them -- none of them are worth a damn.
Post a Comment