http://www.counterpunch.org/wheeler06132005.htmlIt was shall we say, an interesting experience. I would not call it mind-expanding, but there definitely were many stretched neurons in the Wohlsetter Conference Room at AEI that day.
The pretext was the coming forth of a pamphlet by Donnelly, "The Military We Need," available for free at
http://www.aei.org/books/ The UPI review of this work handed out at the event says Donnelly "transcends easy labels" including "neo-conservative," "nationalist," and "neo-imperialist." While the terminology may seem a bit too polite, it is also incomplete.
In his pamphlet, Donnelly cites his goals for Bush Administration policy. These I see as surrogates for what the neo-conservatives (for lack of a better term, right now) as a group see as the next stage of their policy advocacy. Given what Donnelly called Bush's "rapid success" in Afghanistan and the "last legs" on which Vice President Cheney now sees the insurgents in Iraq so wobbily staggering, what, do you wonder, have these authors of American policy for the last five years mapped out for us in the future?
Donnelly wants five things: