Yes it is a PNAC letter. Posted on their website as one of their letters. I gave you the link- go check it out. It's a PNAC letter and it's being very much discussed everywhere but America (deja-vu?)
Your moniker suits your points FightingNewDem. I've already been there, done that. Have been warning about PNAC, the AEI and collaborating organizations for years. Warned about the PNAC letters re Iraq and am not revisiting that ground because many people, like you but since disappeared, poo-pooed those letters saying there was nothing inconsistent blah blah blah, standing up for human rights blah blah blah just as Bush is doing in Iraq today. If you're intent is to defend them, there's no point going around in circles because for me PNAC/AEI/NAI is so last year's discussion. If you are not aware of the dangers of PNAC by now, many of us would be sincerely happy to help you catch up. But not spinning my wheels discussing a danger that's already clear and present.
By the way, you do know that PNAC is only a small part of AEI? The occupy only one floor, the 5th I think, of the AEI.
Vaclav Havel has been good buddies with Senator Right-Wing evangelical John Kyl (-R, -neoCon, -PNAC), Kristol, Lieberman and a slew of other PNAC-lovers for decades. My first recollection of him was his participation in the 1997 Senate Briefing the NAI gave which was hosted by JonKyl, Lieberman, Mikulski, and Roth. Neo-Liberals, Neo-Conservatives, same damned thing.
Vaclav sold whatever soul he had to the the devil in exchange for NATO membership (and a few other things). When the devil comes saying to pay up, you pay up. Havel is paying up.
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re NATOChronicles of the New American Century, No. 2 | Sidebar
The NATO Expansion Lobby
By Tom Barry | March 19, 2004
Bruce Jackson, of the Project for the New American Century, personifies the new military-industrial complex--“a minister without portfolio” who speaks for the U.S. government, the weapons industry, the Republican Party, and the right's network of foreign policy think tanks.
“Strengthen America, Secure Europe. Defend Values. Expand NATO” was the motto of the U.S. Committee on NATO, the lobbying group established in 1996 by Bruce Jackson to bring the transitional nations of “New Europe” into the NATO fold. The committee's slogan concisely summarizes the main arguments of the NATO expansion lobby in the United States. Although NATO was established in 1949 to contain the purported Soviet threat to Western Europe , the NATO expansion lobby argues not only that NATO has a place in the post-cold war world but that it should be consolidated and expanded as an instrument of U.S. hegemonic power despite the expiration of its founding rationale.
Unlike most right-wing foreign policy experts, Bruce Jackson, the committee's founder and president, is as comfortable with the liberal rhetoric of expansion and enlargement of democracy as he is with the neo-imperial jargon of preemptive defense, U.S. supremacy, and unilateralism. Jackson established the U.S. Committee on NATO at a time when he was finance chairman of Bob Dole's presidential campaign. Among the first board members were such figures as Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Peter Rodman, and Stephen Hadley, who later joined the Bush administration. Aside from Jackson, other PNAC officials included on the committee's board of directors were PNAC's executive director Gary Schmitt, PNAC cofounder Robert Kagan, and PNAC board member Randy Scheunemann. Another increasingly prominent neocon on the committee's board was Julie Finley, who, along with Jackson and Scheunemann, was cofounder of both the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq and the Project on Transitional Democracies. Finley is also the treasurer of the National Endowment on Democracy, a quasi-governmental organization founded and led by neoconservatives. The U.S. Committee on NATO was not, however, purely a neocon venture. It reached out to and included Democrats such as Will Marshall, founder and president of the Progressive Policy Institute. Marshall was also a founder of the Democratic Leadership Council, another organization of “New Democrats”.
(snip)
... Another venue, in addition to the U.S. Committee on NATO and the Project on Transitional Nations, for this interface work is the American Enterprise Institute, where Jackson served on the founding advisory board of AEI's New Atlantic Initiative. Funded by the Olin and Bradley foundations, the New Atlantic Initiative goal is “the admission of Europe 's fledgling democracies into institutions of Atlantic defense.” Like the AEI itself, the New Atlantic Initiative is dominated by neocons such as William Kristol, Samuel Huntington, Norman Podhoretz, Joshua Muravchick, Richard Perle, and Daniel Pipes. AEI's New Atlantic Initiative also includes on its advisory board military hard-liners such as Donald Rumsfeld, right-wing political figures like Newt Gingrich, and realpolitikers such as Henry Kissinger and George Shultz, as well a few Democrats such as Thomas Foley--all of whom share the neocon vision of a “New Europe.”
(snip)
“Far from promoting democracy in eastern Europe, Washington is promoting a system of political and military control not unlike that once practiced by the Soviet Union. Unlike that empire, which collapsed because the center was weaker than the periphery, the new NATO is both a mechanism for extracting Danegeld from new member states for the benefit of the U.S. arms industry and an instrument for getting others to protect U.S. interests around the world, including the supply of primary resources such as
oil.”
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/analysis/2004/0403natoexp.php====================
re AEI/NAI((Rupert)) Murdoch is on the Board of Directors and/or advisors of a group of interlocking Washington Conservative Revolution think-tanks, including the Cato Institute, a radical free trade outfit that supports legalization of psychotropic drugs; and
the American Enterprise Institute and its spinoff, the New Atlantic Initiative (AEI/NAI). It is at the AEI/NAI venture that Conrad Black and Murdoch are "joined at the hip." In 1996, in order to launch what Black now calls the "American Empire," Black and Murdoch put in the funds to hold a number of international conferences beginning with Prague, 1996, that featured Baroness Margaret Thatcher as the standard bearer.
It was at these NAI conferences that the current policy of imperial war, using NATO out-of-area deployments, and using the Iraq war as the model for "pre-emptive war" was first laid out. http://comiterepubliquecanada.ca/English/Articles/BlackHole.htm====
POLITICS-U.S.:
Sidelined Neo-Cons Stoke Future Fires
Analysis - By Jim Lobe
Sidelined by their failed predictions for Iraq and U.S. President George W Bush's efforts to reassure voters he is not a warmonger, prominent neo-conservatives and their Christian Right allies are nonetheless trying hard to prepare the ground for future U.S. adventures in the Middle East. WASHINGTON, Oct 7 2004 (IPS) - Echoing increasingly threatening noises from the government of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon about preventing Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, neo-cons are calling for Washington to undertake covert action, at the very least, to oust what some of them call the ''terror masters'' in Tehran as part of a more general ''World War IV'' against alleged Arab and Islamic extremism.
Some neo-cons are even complaining that if Bush had been serious about the ''war on terrorism'', he should have taken on Iran after Afghanistan, rather than Iraq.
''Had we seen the war for what it was, we would not have started with Iraq, but with Iran, the mother of modern Islamic terrorism, the creator of Hezbollah, the ally of al-Qaeda, the sponsor of Zarqawi, the longtime sponsor of Fatah and the backbone of Hamas'', wrote part-time Pentagon consultant Michael Ledeen of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) this week.
His article also reprised an argument he first made three years ago -- that the Iranian people were already rising up against the mullahs and needed only a little nudge from Washington to succeed.
(snip)
The conference was addressed briefly by telephone by former Secretary of State George Shultz, the group's new co-chair, while Woolsey announced that
former Czech Republic President Vaclav Havel and former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar
had agreed to head an international chapter. Keynoters for the symposium, titled ''World War IV: Why We're Fighting, Whom We're Fighting, How We're Fighting'', included Woolsey, who has long spoken of the fight against ''Islamo-fascism'' -- defined as including ''the mullahs of Iran'', the Ba'athist parties of Iraq and Syria, and ''the Wahhabis'', of which the al-Qaeda terrorist group is a part -- as the equivalent of a world war.
On hand was Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, whose participation appeared not only to provide an official sanction of the radical agenda, but also to confirm that the neo-con faction within the Bush administration is alive, kicking and unashamed despite the quagmire in Iraq.
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http://ipsnews.net/print.asp?idnews=25771-----------
What do have Kissinger, Thatcher and Havel have in common?
New Atlantic Initiative (NAI)
Patrons
Vaclav Havel
Margaret Thatcher
Helmut Schmidt
Leszek Balcerowicz
Henry Kissinger
George Schultz
http://www.aei.org/research/nai/about/projectID.11/default.asp I don't hold in any esteem people are joined with the scum that's destroying this world.
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