Gary Bauer and PNAC

[LEK]

Reading that Gary Bauer supports McCain because of his "family values" disgusted me today. Then I discovered that Bauer is a member of PNAC.

This is the group that called for a "New Pearl Harbor" event to accelerate the the rebuilding of America's defenses.

This is the PNAC exerpt ( written September 2000):

Rebuilding America’s Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century

Further, the process of transformation,
even if it brings revolutionary change, is
likely to be a long one, absent some
catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a
new Pearl Harbor. Domestic politics and
industrial policy will shape the pace and
content of transformation as much as the
requirements of current missions.
h ttp://www.newamericancentury.org/Rebuildi...casDefenses.pdf

Here are the players in PNAC - recognize any of them?

Elliott Abrams
Gary Bauer
William J. Bennett
Jeb Bush
Dick Cheney
Eliot A. Cohen
Midge Decter
Paula Dobriansky
Steve Forbes
Aaron Friedberg
Francis Fukuyama
Frank Gaffney
Fred C. Ikle
Donald Kagan
Zalmay Khalilzad
I. Lewis Libby
Norman Podhoretz
Dan Quayle
Peter W. Rodman
Stephen P. Rosen
Henry S. Rowen
Donald Rumsfeld
Vin Weber
George Weigel
Paul Wolfowitz

[LEK]

Here is an excerpt from PNAC's Statement of Principles:

• we need to increase defense spending significantly if we are to carry out our global responsibilities today and modernize our armed forces for the future;

• we need to strengthen our ties to democratic allies and to challenge regimes hostile to our interests and values;

• we need to promote the cause of political and economic freedom abroad;

• we need to accept responsibility for America's unique role in preserving and extending an international order friendly to our security, our prosperity, and our principles.

h ttp://www.newamericancentury.org/statementofprinciples.htm

Hegemony:
1. leadership or predominant influence exercised by one nation over others, as in a confederation.
2. leadership; predominance.
3. (esp. among smaller nations) aggression or expansionism by large nations in an effort to achieve world domination.

[Pauls' Revere]

http://tvnewslies.org/html/pnac_neo-con_artists.html
http://www.btinternet.com/~nlpWESSEX/Documents/PNAC.htm
http://empireburlesquenow.blogspot.com/2005/03/dark-passage-pnacs-blueprint-for.html