Reply #65: Here's what bothers me about that

[jberryhill]

Turn the clock back to the 1992 elections and you find things like "If the economy does not improve, or gets worse, then it will help the Democrats in the elections."

Making an observation such as that does not mean that the Democrats are actively working to MAKE the economy go sour, or that the Democrats WANT the economy to go sour.

The PNAC paper is premised on the position that the US consumes a disproportionate share of the world's resources in order to maintain its standard of living.

We see plenty of people on DU who don't want foreigners to "take our jobs" or who otherwise see international trade as a threat.

Now, either we find some path toward global equity, or we maintain US domination of world resources, but we can't have both. The PNAC'ers are of the "maintain domination" opinion, and the paper sets forth that it would be hard to justify the requisite exercise of force without a precipitating and justifying event. That does not mean they were planning one or facilitating one.