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The Project for the New American Century is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to a few fundamental propositions: that American leadership is good both for America and for the world; that such leadership requires military strength, diplomatic energy and commitment to moral principle; and that too few political leaders today are making the case for global leadership.Read more about this group here:http://www.newamericancentury.org/index.htmlThese are the people running the country. Their membership includes: Cheney, Rumsfeld, Jeb Bush, Wolfowitz, and others.
May 17, 2000MEMORANDUM TO: OPINION LEADERSFROM: GARY SCHMITTSUBJECT: Kosovo The Senate may vote today on a provision in the FY2001 Military Construction Appropriations bill, which would mandate the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Kosovo after July 1, 2001, unless Congress passes a joint resolution specifically authorizing their continued deployment. The principal sponsors of the measure are Sens. Robert Byrd (D-W.VA) and John Warner (R-VA).As the debate begins, I would like to draw your attention to the following editorial from Monday’s Washington Times (“Out of Kosovo?”). As the editorial observes, whatever the Senate’s complaints about the Clinton White House’s handling of the Balkans policy are, the solution is not to cut and run from Kosovo. “The real challenge for the Senate is to rise above these sorry facts and consider the principle.” Coming on the heels of the administration’s March decision to order NATO's commander-in-chief, then U.S. Army Gen. Wesley Clark, not to use U.S. troops assigned to one sector to assist other NATO forces under the gun in adjacent areas, passage of the Bryd-Warner provision will only reaffirm to our allies and our enemies in Europe that U.S. leadership is increasingly a thing of the past and disengagement the growing norm.Taking a pot shot at the Clinton White House may be great sport but it will be the next administration which will have to repair the damage done to U.S. credibility, the NATO alliance and security in Southeast Europe by this provision.
Quote from: Don Rizzle on May 10, 2006, 03:16:12 AMiraq would just get annexed by iranThat would be a great solution. If Iran and the majority of Iraqi's are pleased with it, then why shouldn't they do it?
iraq would just get annexed by iran
It's not a crime. The U.S. earned its place as a world leader by the hard work of our former, respected presidents. These guys are fighting for something different. World leadership based on military superiority, rather than economic and moral authority. This has been tried before and failed. See Napoleon, the Fall on Rome, Gheghis Kahn. It's already beginning to fail. The neocons sacrificed our economy to win one dinky little war in Iraq, and they couldn't even do that. The Iraq war was an astonishing failure, and weakened our military, economy, and moral authority in the eyes of the rest of the world.