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04-21-2013, 11:18 PM
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In the lead up to the Iraq War, many conservative think tanks abetted President Bush in his effort to persuade Americans that the government of Iraq represented a threat to stability throughout the world. No think tank was more persistent in its push for war than the American Enterprise Institute. President Bush commented on the influence that the Institute had inside his Administration in 2003 when he addressed its members at a dinner to commemorate the late Irving Kristol: “You do such good work that my Administration has borrowed 20 such minds.”
Soon after the war began, neoconservative columnist Charles Krauthammer delivered an address at the American Enterprise Institute’s 2004 annual dinner in which he declared Americans “have acquired the largest seeming empire in the history of the world.” Now, ten years later, the Iraq War is considered by the majority of Americans to have been not worth the cost in blood. Observers of the American Enterprise Institute have noticed that many hard line neoconservatives have been purged from their positions since 2008, but the damage of the policies they have instituted still effect America today.
President Obama has continued to embroil the nation in more conflicts overseas in the years since the previous Administration departed. However, this week a new Institute emerged, founded by former Congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul, offering an alternative to Washington’s current foreign policy discussions. Paul’s new Institute, The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, seeks not only to challenge neoconservative and hawkish rhetoric, but will attempt to unite conservatives, liberals, progressives, libertarians and the American people towards a more sensible approach to foreign affairs.
Read more: http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/remnant/2013/apr/21/ron-pauls-peaceful-institute/#ixzz2R90pxa93
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In the lead up to the Iraq War, many conservative think tanks abetted President Bush in his effort to persuade Americans that the government of Iraq represented a threat to stability throughout the world. No think tank was more persistent in its push for war than the American Enterprise Institute. President Bush commented on the influence that the Institute had inside his Administration in 2003 when he addressed its members at a dinner to commemorate the late Irving Kristol: “You do such good work that my Administration has borrowed 20 such minds.”
Soon after the war began, neoconservative columnist Charles Krauthammer delivered an address at the American Enterprise Institute’s 2004 annual dinner in which he declared Americans “have acquired the largest seeming empire in the history of the world.” Now, ten years later, the Iraq War is considered by the majority of Americans to have been not worth the cost in blood. Observers of the American Enterprise Institute have noticed that many hard line neoconservatives have been purged from their positions since 2008, but the damage of the policies they have instituted still effect America today.
President Obama has continued to embroil the nation in more conflicts overseas in the years since the previous Administration departed. However, this week a new Institute emerged, founded by former Congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul, offering an alternative to Washington’s current foreign policy discussions. Paul’s new Institute, The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, seeks not only to challenge neoconservative and hawkish rhetoric, but will attempt to unite conservatives, liberals, progressives, libertarians and the American people towards a more sensible approach to foreign affairs.
Read more: http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/remnant/2013/apr/21/ron-pauls-peaceful-institute/#ixzz2R90pxa93
more, and internal links, at link