PNAC needed a new Pearl Harbour

"...some catastrophic and catalysing event - like a new Pearl Harbour..."

Guardian UK on the Project for the New American Century

Observer UK

March 23, 2003

The 'outs' of Washington politics can often be found plotting the future in the think-tanks. Here you can find out what Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle and many other prominent Bush administration hawks were thinking in 1997, as they set out a new conservative foreign policy doctrine to combine 'military might and moral leadership', which became the hawks' post-9/11 blueprint. At the time, the neo-conservatives were unclear as to whether their agenda would take hold: 'The process of transformation is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalysing event-like a new Pearl Harbour.'

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