Project for the New American Century

 

William Kristol, Co-founder and Chairman^[

Robert Kagan: Co- founder

The New American Thinking Tank

 

 

American Think Tanks Visiting of BİLGESAM Delegation

A part of the evolution is not God’s will but it can be a man’s dream that can change the world. The Project for the New American Century had such dream. PNAC, better known as The Project for the New American Century, was an American thinking tank based in Washington D.C. It was founded as a non-profit organization by the two most prominent and powerful neoconservatives William Kristol and Robert Kagan. It was also based on a Reaganite policy of military strength and moral clarity.

:^{The very first time that American public became aware of PNAC was when the organization released what they called “Statement of Principals”,  signed by both Kristol and Kagan and a number of notable conservative politicians and journalists. It was passed on to the world that listened, the purpose of PNAC and the goals of the organization}

It was stated that as the 20th century draws to a close, the United States stands as the world’s pre-eminent power, having led the West to victory in the Cold War, America faces an opportunity and a challenge: Does the United States have the vision to build upon the achievements of past decades?                                                                                                                                                             We resolve to shape a new century favorable to American principles and interests. It is more or less our mission. To accomplish our mission we need:

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.

We need to follow the Reaganite policy “Such a Reaganite policy of military strength and moral clarity,” the “Statement of Principles” concludes, “it is necessary if the United States is to build on the successes of this past century and to ensure our security and our greatness in the next century.”

The PNAC with letters and articles written by some prominent conservatives over achievers were wrapped in extreme Radical Ideas. They tried to convince the American people that America has the capabilities of westernizing the world under the guidance of America. Those articles preached that America had the map of the highway leading to heaven and the key t get in. They never asked if China or Russia or Asia if they would have liked to have gone to the American heaven They did mentioned the Arab countries particularly Iraq and Iran. For some unknown reason to me all they were saying that the beginning of achieving their goal was the ending of Saddam Hussein.

What wicked  webs we weave when we first start to deceive.

HERE That such relatively reasonable right-wingers as William Kristol …

Calls for regime change in Iraq during Clinton years

It seems to me at this point that PNAC was obsessed of bringing Saddam Hussein and this obsession nested in the hearts of all the signatories. Their wishes were reported to Republican members of the US Congress, Newt Gingrich and Trent Lott. Their obsession was branded as the Goal and it was referred as Iraq Disarmament Crisis. To me it looked then and looks more now, that the PNAC was a Jewish conspiracy to bring down Saddam Hussein to secure the existence of Israel, disregarding loss of lives and monetary waist.

The PNAC also supported with hands and feet to an unbelievable extend, the Iraq Liberation of 1998 (H.R.4655), which President Clinton had signed into law, which recommended Iraq’s change of Government and the ousting of Saddam Hussein. Even though Bill Clinton had signed the law he did not choose to pursue  Saddam Hussein’s ousting through any kind of war or the resuming the Gulf War, Iraq which was finished  in accordance with the UN policy But PNAC pressure on politician kept on pressing Clinton to go after Saddam Hussein, therefore to pacify them, he kept on bombing Iraq and enforcing the no FLY ZONE Sadism Hussein being odd and capricious, not a nice guy by nature, and hearing PNAC’s threats, urgings and demands on the politicians to finish him off, he became disillusioned and more rebellious looking for an exit.

For instance: on January 16, 1998, following perceived Iraqi unwillingness to co-operate with UN weapons inspections, members of the PNAC, including Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, and Robert Zoellick drafted an open letter to President Bill Clinton, urging President Clinton to remove Saddam Hussein from power using U.S. diplomatic, political, and military power. The letter spelled out that Saddam would pose a threat to the United States, its Middle East allies, and oil resources in the region.the letter also indicated that there was a stockpile of Weapons of Mass Destruction. They also state: “we can no longer depend on our partners in the Gulf War to continue to uphold the sanctions or to punish Saddam when he blocks or evades UN inspections” and “American policy cannot continue to be crippled by a misguided insistence on unanimity in the UN Security Council.” It also stated and declared that an Iraq war would be justified by Hussein’s defiance of UN “containment” policy and his persistent threat to U.S. interests. Bill Clinton again, refused to budge to their demands

 

Gulf War

In 1990, Iraq was faced with economic disaster following the end of the Iran–Iraq War. Kuwait, is a small southern neighbor, had increased its production of oil, which kept oil revenues relatively down for Iraq. The Iraqi government also claimed that Kuwait was illegally slanted drilling its oil wells into Iraqi territory, a practice which he demanded to be stopped.

I have recently spoken to Kuwait citizens and heard their story about the Saddam Hussein invasion of Kuwait and is a little different from what the write ups claim.

Saddam Hussein oil production had fallen while Kuwait’s production was booming. Saddam Hussein was told by exports, he had at hand, that the reason Iraqi oil production went down while Kuwait’s production went up, was because certain underground changes under Iraqi land had occurred and the oil; because of the under terrain nature’s activities, ran down hill to the Kuwait land. Saddam accused the Kuwait of stealing his oil and demanded 7 billion American dollars. Needless to say Kuwait did not like the accusation but they offered, out of the goodness of their heart, $750,000,000. Kuwait, rejecting the claim and the handing over to him the sum of 7 billion dollars, made Saddam angry and In August 1990, Iraq followed the rejection by invading Kuwait. The Iraqi military rapidly occupied the country, and Hussein declared that Kuwait had ceased to exist, becoming Iraq’s 19th province. This brought heavy objections from many countries and the United Nations.

The UN agreed to pass economic sanctions against Iraq and demanded its immediate withdrawal from Kuwait.  Iraq refused to evict and vacate the premises on demand and the UN Security Council in 1991 unanimously voted for military action against Iraq. The United Nations Security Council, under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter, adopted Resolution 678, authorizing U.N. member states to use “all necessary means” to “restore international peace and security in the area.” The United States, which had enormous vested interests in the oil supplies of the Persian Gulf region, led an international coalition into Kuwait and Iraq, under the leadership of George Bush, the first Bush president.                                          .

The coalition forces entered the war with more advanced weaponry than that of Iraq, Even though Iraq’s military was one of the largest armed forces in Western Asia at the time, the Iraqi army was no match for the advanced weaponry of the coalition forces and the air superiority that the coalition forces provided. The coalition forces proceeded with a bombing campaign targeting military including an occupied public shelter in Baghdad. At that point Saddam Hussein was astonished and felt betrayed.He, being crazier than smart he threw Missiles on Israel hoping for Israel to respond and the other Arab nations to come to his aid. He didn’t know most of the Arab nations that would lift a finger to help him were weaker than watered down gene. But America gave a signal to Israel to stay put, the signal was understood well taken and honored.

The mixture of civilian and military vehicles on the Highway of Death at first going to Kuwait and then retuning, estimates of Iraqi military deaths range from 8,000 to 100,000

To make things more interesting reading: America, before the shooting started, had shipped out thousands of body bags to place the dead American soldiers. .At the end of that conflict, I learned that the number of the American casualties was very low. Then the question came into my mind; did the coalition forces and the Americans over estimate the Iraqi military strength? That question remained with me for many years and for a very good reason. That question gave birth to another question, as good questions often do. How America can go into war not knowing the weakness and the strength of the enemy?   The answer came to me from a high ranking officer of the armed forces during the Gulf War. According to him the American and the coalition forces were fully aware of Saddam Hussein’s military strength, but they also knew his capabilities and his character. They knew that Saddam Hussein had used tons of poisons gas exterminating Kurds and Iranian soldiers. But for some unknown reason Saddam Hussein did not drop a drop of the stuff on his enemies in the Gulf War. The high ranking officer indicated to me that he thought that Saddam Hussein felt betrayed by the Americans coming to the aid of a very small country. Saddam Hussein still wanted America by his side because he was about to go after the Iranians. In the meantime he became very defiant and that was his downfall. Some of the defiance was due to PNAC’s threatening articles and many lies about him. Let’s face it; PNAC had much influence on American politics. If it weren’t for PNAC things could have been different down in that region, Just listen to this: PNAC had 40 members on its board and 20 of them joined the Bush administration as the heads of important departments including the vice President Dick Cheney and Rumsfeld the Secretary of Defense   but the PNAC went down like Saddam Hussein..Of course PNAC was not in existence yet, but The Neo-conservatism, which was founded by Bill Krystal’s father, Irvin Kristol, and which was the mother or the father of PNAC. That was in existence and had many powerful conservatives by its side, who did what the Neo-conservatism Organization dictated, including convincing the UN to impose more and more sanctions on Iraq and the Iraqi people. It was a foregone conclusion, that Israel didn’t want Saddam Hussein to take down Iran because Israel felt she were next in line. Thus having a friend in Manhattan, the Neo-conservatism Party, she needed nothing more. The more sanctions they imposed on Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi people the more defiant he became Don’t take me wrong, Saddam Hussein was a dog, but he could have been a good watch dog for America down there…

.As a result of these repeated violations, US Secretary of State Madeline Albright, US Secretary of Defense William Cohen, and US National Security Advisor Sandy Berger held an international town hall meeting to discuss possible war with Iraq, which seemed to have little public support. In October 1998, U.S. President Bill Clinton signed the Iraq Liberation Act, calling for “regime change” in Iraq, but did not go after Saddam Hussein as heard as the PNAC wished

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On November 16, 1998, Kristol, the founder of PNAC called again for regime change in an editorial in his online magazine, The Weekly Standard: The article went on to say that “Any sustained bombing and missile campaign against Iraq should be part of any overall political-military strategy aimed at removing Saddam from power.” Kristol also said that Paul Wolfowitz and others believed that the goal was to create “a ‘liberated zone’ in southern Iraq that would provide a safe haven where opponents of Saddam could rally and organize a credible alternative to the present regime. The liberated zone would have to be protected by U.S. military might, both from the air and, if necessary, on the ground.”

Less than 45 days later in January of1999, the PNAC circulated a memo that criticized the December 1998 bombing of Iraq in Operation Desert Fox as ineffective, questioned the viability of Iraqi democratic opposition which the U.S. was supporting through the Iraq Liberation Act, and referred to any “containment” policy illusion.

Researching, studying and investigating to write this article, combined with my knowledge and memory of the events, I come to realize that most of those who had taken the bull by the horns were Jewish,

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So, I come to believe that most of the pushing and the shoving was done by Israel, using American influence. I am neither a blogger nor a journalist, I am a novelist. In a novel the author writes the way he feels, sees and hears and has a good sense of smelling things  and doesn’t give white hats to the good guys and black hats to the bad guys; the reader must realize who  is a good guy and who is a bad guy. If you believe that the members of the PNAC were good to think what they thought and what they hoped to do, give them a white hat, but if you think the opposite give them a black hat, there are enough hats to go around, but don’t forget people change hats at the drop of one, as you have seen and continues to happen in Iraq..

The plant was s little sickly and once the donkey stepped on it went to hell and died. Now look who I am, I am writing American political article hooked to the Arab world and decorated by Greek old saying it makes a little bit crazier and more confused than Saddam Hussein.

The members of the American thinking tank went thinking beyond logic. Good thinking Bill Clinton stuck to his guns not to start anything , blessed with the thought that it was wrong what they were proposing. George W. Bush, pressed by Dick Cheney, a member of the THINKING TANK, did go after Saddam Hussein paying dearly with American young lives, because he said “After all, Saddam Hussein must go, he threatened to harm my Daddy.”

Finally

But who will be the one to come and gun them down, who will be the one to run them out of town?

 

The organization was not put out of business by any law enforcement agency, it died after having completed its mission. It was too strong, that only tells us that others may come up and be more destructive, so when you think you have it made you are simply not thinking.