Sunday, November 07, 2004
The Neo-Con Dream Team
The
lineup will be reshuffled, but the bench is deep. Now that the Bush
administration has been given the ball for another four years, the
neo-conservative dream team is ready to run with it.
"Regime change -- one way or another -- in
Crushing Fallujah (now about to begin),
dealing with
So is the long-standing goal of "deploying effective missile
defenses at sea and in space."
According to recent
talk by another administration insider, the complete militarization
of space is also on the table, going beyond the recent abrogation
of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty to also abrogate the Treaty
for Peaceful Uses of Space.
According to the Project for a New American Century's (PNAC) 2000
document, "Strategy, Forces, and Resources for a New Century,"
the objective is to "control the new international commons
of space...and pave the way for the creation of a new military service
-- U.S. Space Forces -- with the mission of space control."
"Space as a key theater of war," according to that PNAC
document.
"...while we fight World War IV," writes Gaffney.
The neo-conservative vision of a perpetual "war without end"
has been given another four years to implement American empire,
much to the detriment of the American people and the world community.
While it was merely a campaign slogan, the "Stronger at Home,
Respected in the World" mantra of the Kerry campaign is now
little more than a cruel joke for half of America and most of the
world.
Read more:
- "Neo-Con Agenda: Iran, China, Russia, Latin America..." by Jim Lobe (6 Nov 2004, Inter Press Service)