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Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan
I don't recognize the creators of the NPAC as names from either the White House or of high ranking military officials.
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That's true: and some of them, notably Bill Kristol, are notorious blowhards that are a bit hard to take seriously. But wasn't Paul Wolfowitz involved in PNAC at one time? I could be wrong, but I seem to remember reading that somewhere. And for better or for worse, Bush's foreign policy of pre-emption seems to depend heavily on PNAC's crazier policy statements.
Mind you--that doesn't mean there's a vast conspiracy here. It just means that the people in charge are reading the wrong policy papers from the wrong wackos. As for the "real" reason, my own suspicion is that the interests being served were political--and they were domestic. This theory has the advantage of not being a conspiracy theory--it's well known that American politicians like to "wag the dog" in this way. Where they miscalculated was that they, like PNAC, were so enamored of the idea of the US as the moral center of the world, that they forgot to adequately analyze what the costs might be. Who can forget Cheney bragging that the US would be "greeted as liberators"?
Anyway, that last paragraph will probably go down in history as one of the wackier things I've said--and for what it's worth I fully recognize that all of that is mere conjecture on my part. It's a theory that I like for its simplicity, though.