Neo-Con Ideologues Launch New Foreign Policy Group

[Agony]

Eternal vigilance I suppose... PNAC redux.

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WASHINGTON, Mar 25 (IPS) - A newly-formed and still obscure neo-conservative foreign policy organisation is giving some observers flashbacks to the 1990s, when its predecessor staked out the aggressively unilateralist foreign policy that came to fruition under the George W. Bush administration.

The blandly-named Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI) - the brainchild of Weekly Standard editor William Kristol, neo-conservative foreign policy guru Robert Kagan, and former Bush administration official Dan Senor - has thus far kept a low profile; its only activity to this point has been to sponsor a conference pushing for a U.S. "surge" in Afghanistan.

But some see FPI as a likely successor to Kristol’s and Kagan’s previous organisation, the now-defunct Project for the New American Century (PNAC), which they launched in 1997 and which became best known for leading the public campaign to oust former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein both before and after the Sep. 11 attacks.

PNAC’s charter members included many figures who later held top positions under Bush, including Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld, and his top deputy, Paul Wolfowitz.

FPI was founded earlier this year, but few details are available about the group, which has so far attracted no media attention. The organisation’s website lists Kagan, Kristol, and Senor, who came to prominence as a spokesman for the occupation authorities in Iraq, as the three members of its board of directors.
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http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=46272

[Demeter]

1. How Does That Go? Fool Me Once, Shame on You.....

[Agony]

2. It depends... Something like... Fool me twice, blame someone else. I think... n/t

[Demeter]

7. Your version at Least Makes Sense (and is Grammatically Constructed)

[applegrove]

3. And they publish their existance as an organization to get around RICO laws.

Cause if they were secret about their creepy plans they would probably have been charged with crimes already.

[Mr. Sparkle]

4. For all intents and purposes,it may as well be called Project for the New American Century part deux

[Agony]

5. Throw these nutballs in and we have a twofer-->The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD)

LOOK! Richard Perle!

http://www.defenddemocracy.org/index.php?option=com_fddbios&Itemid=326

Who We Are
The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) is the only nonpartisan policy institute dedicated exclusively to promoting pluralism, defending democratic values, and fighting the ideologies that threaten democracy.

FDD was founded shortly after 9/11 by a group of visionary philanthropists and policymakers to support the defense of democratic societies under assault by terrorism and militant Islamism. ...more

[Arctic Dave]

6. When you have nothing else to offer. Put a another name

and package on the same old turd and call it New. How many people will fall for it this time?

[pam4water]

8. Why don't they just go away!