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pat_k

(12,882 posts)
28. Way back when I saved a report on PNAC
Fri Feb 13, 2026, 09:48 PM
7 hrs ago

It's entitled The Rise and Demise of the 'New American Century' (2006)

If anyone is interested in an extensive report on neocons, I found a link to that old report:

https://sites.ualberta.ca/~raitken/documents/0606riseanddemise.pdf

It's now on my re-read list. As I recall, it provided some great insights that currently escape me (wish my brain wasn't such a sieve)

From the intro:

The IRC is publishing this special report on the Project for the New American Century, along with an accompanying report on the Committee on the Present Danger, as part of an effort to stimulate more reflection on the dangers of the ideology and political projects of the neoconservatives and their allies.


IRC (International Relations Center) was founded in 1979 by Tom Barry. IRC morphed into other things around 2007 when Barry joined the Center for International Policy.

I don't know what Mr. Barry is up to these days, but he also wrote an excellent 2009 article on our destructive immigration policies and the exponential growth of immigration prisons: A Death in Texas: Where profits, poverty, and immigration converge.

Things were already intolerable then. I still have trouble fathoming the magnitude of the hell we are descending into.






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I recall when it was created & there were many who opposed it. SheltieLover 11 hrs ago #1
Including moi! Mme. Defarge 11 hrs ago #2
Me too... SheltieLover 11 hrs ago #4
If I remember correctly, the wet dream was actually pnac's. We knew they niyad 8 hrs ago #20
Yes. SheltieLover 8 hrs ago #22
Way back when I saved a report on PNAC pat_k 7 hrs ago #28
Would you consider posting this as its own OP, for wider niyad 6 hrs ago #32
I was one MustLoveBeagles 9 hrs ago #14
Me too, Beagles! SheltieLover 9 hrs ago #15
Yep TimeToGo 9 hrs ago #16
I was suspicious right from the start when they used the term "Homeland". llmart 9 hrs ago #17
Same here. SheltieLover 8 hrs ago #23
My elderly father, who was raised as a farm Republican, was absolutely INCENSED by Jack Valentino 5 hrs ago #35
Your dad sounds like a great patriot! SheltieLover 5 hrs ago #36
I forgot to say my 'late' father.... he died in 2020, at the age of 91... Jack Valentino 5 hrs ago #38
So sorry for your loss. SheltieLover 4 hrs ago #40
I particularly miss him when working on my garden, which is something we did together Jack Valentino 4 hrs ago #41
The fear of immigrants coming here goes hand-in-hand with racism FakeNoose 11 hrs ago #3
I Wholly Agree - It Was a Corrupt Idea and Violation of the American Credo from the Get-go The Roux Comes First 10 hrs ago #5
Absolutely! (does not excuse the current further corruption) pat_k 8 hrs ago #26
I always hated that name Homeland MacKasey 10 hrs ago #6
When I first heard homeland under the Bush administration, Sanity Claws 10 hrs ago #7
I think when we redeem our national soul 1WorldHope 9 hrs ago #8
Now, that's an idea! pat_k 5 hrs ago #33
Whose time has come! 🙂 1WorldHope 5 hrs ago #37
Nazis favored the word ''heimat'' dalton99a 9 hrs ago #9
We are a Nation, not some ethnic Homeland. pat_k 6 hrs ago #30
So say we all. BidenRocks 9 hrs ago #10
Yes, the entire reorganization that led to DHS (and that un-American name) needs to be undone. JHB 9 hrs ago #11
republicans are an organizational mess BaronChocula 9 hrs ago #12
Using the word "homeland" has always given me the willies. It's creepy. paleotn 9 hrs ago #13
I have no doubt that it was intended. pat_k 5 hrs ago #34
INDEED! For anybody 'white', this is NOT their 'homeland'! Jack Valentino 4 hrs ago #39
Bush legacy malaise 9 hrs ago #18
It was a harmful idea from the start dlk 9 hrs ago #19
A Lot of Us Deep State Witch 8 hrs ago #21
end this travesty. quakerboy 8 hrs ago #24
I remember in the GW Bush days when the government formed DHS and they began infringing phylny 8 hrs ago #25
Referring to the country as "Homeland" should have set off klaxon horns during W's administration Tim S 8 hrs ago #27
For many it did -- but tragically not enough. pat_k 6 hrs ago #31
DURec leftstreet 6 hrs ago #29
DHS is some nazi bullshit. Always has been. Iggo 3 hrs ago #42
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