Reply #16: VERY interesting origins to that phrase

[DrBB]

It's actually a very weird and interesting story. I was hoping someone else would have posted it, because I've encountered it a few times and I keep forgetting to bookmark it. Might've been a Geof Nunberg piece--I'll go look. In any case, if I IIRC, it's from a defense study done back in the 80s. Stuff on protecting us from terrorism and whatnot (surprise). A pentagon piece that was influential on Wolfowitz and became part of the original white paper that he submitted to Cheney, that later evolved into the PNAC thing.

In other words, it ties the present world domination scheme we're involved in back to the pre-Clinton machinations of the neo-cons under Bush I.

Gotta love etymology--it can be revealing as hell.

I'll post back if I can run this down. Meanwhile maybe someone else can correct my rather vague account of it here.