Dave’s Rants

The Project for the New American Century - This is a group that consists of Bush’s inner circle. Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Jeb Bush, Richard Perle - they’re all there. So too is Zalmay Khalilzad, now the White House’s “special envoy and ambassador-at-large for free Iraqi.

The group was created in 1997 as a Republican assault on the Clinton presidency but it’s far scarier than just a lobby group. The group speaks of “full spectrum dominance”, meaning American invincibility in every field of warfare - land, sea, air and space - and a world in which no two nations’ relationship with each other will be more important than their relationship with the US. There will be no place on earth, or the heavens for that matter, where Washington’s does not rule supreme. To that end, a ring of US military bases should surround China, with liberation of the People’s Republic considered the ultimate prize. As one enthusiast puts it concisely: “After Baghdad, Beijing.”

Good god, ain’t that scary. I started a disussion on the topic here