Kristol Launches Project For A New American Century 2.0: ‘The Foreign Policy Initiative’
Kristol Launches Project For A New American Century 2.0: ‘The Foreign Policy Initiative’
In November, after Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and his neoconservative foreign policy were soundly defeated at the polls, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol told right-wing talker Hugh Hewitt that he was considering putting together a refashioned version of the Project for a New American Century (PNAC). “A little bit of a political organization” for “the Fred Kagans and Bob Kagans and Reuel Gerechts of the world” wouldn’t “be bad,” said Kristol.
Kristol’s new “political organization” for neoconservatives is now a reality:
A newly-formed and still obscure neo-conservative foreign policy organisation is giving some observers flashbacks to the 1990s, when its predecessor staked out the aggressively unilateralist foreign policy that came to fruition under the George W. Bush administration.
The blandly-named Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI) – the brainchild of Weekly Standard editor William Kristol, neo-conservative foreign policy guru Robert Kagan, and former Bush administration official Dan Senor – has thus far kept a low profile; its only activity to this point has been to sponsor a conference pushing for a U.S. “surge” in Afghanistan.
Though it’s not mentioned on their Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI) bio page, Kristol and Kagan were co-founders of PNAC in 1997. Matt Duss writes at the Wonk Room that Kristol and Kagan seem to be re-naming their old organization because it became “inextricably bound in the public’s imagination to one of the worst foreign policy blunders in American history,” the invasion of Iraq.
Noting that FPI’s first public event next week, Afghanistan: Planning For Success, features a heavy representation of Iraq war advocates, Duss suggests that a far better title for the event would be Afghanistan: Dealing With The Huge Problems Created By Many Of The People On This Very Stage.
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Same post as the other thread, wow how creative numbnuts!
March 26th, 2009 at 2:40 pmSeriously these PNAC 2.0 morons should be shipped to Afghanistan so they can help with the “surge” and maybe find their own graveyard for empires.
Dan Senor??? Oh goody — now his wife, Mrs. CNN “No Bull” Campbell Brown, can come out of the closet again, stare into the Kristol ball and declare her undying allegiance to right wing policies…
March 26th, 2009 at 2:40 pmWhat’s OBUMMER? Is that what your meth-addled, no teeth girlfriend gives your shriveled mast?
March 26th, 2009 at 2:41 pmBill Kristol, are you ever right?
Seriously. Except among the brain-dead devotees of the Weekly Standard, the guy is as credible as a Nigerian chain email.
March 26th, 2009 at 2:41 pm“as per Fox News last night”
That says it all right there…
March 26th, 2009 at 2:41 pmMatt Duss writes at the Wonk Room that Kristol and Kagan seem to be re-naming their old organization because it became “inextricably bound in the public’s imagination to one of the worst foreign policy blunders in American history,” the invasion of Iraq.
Not “one of the worst.”
It is THE VERY WORST foreign policy blunders.
And not in just USer History.
In the history of the whole fuuking world:
Like Hannibal crossing the Alps.
Hitler, and Napoleon invading Russia…
March 26th, 2009 at 2:43 pmWhy can’t we make them go away?
March 26th, 2009 at 2:44 pmLet me guess…others joining Bloody Billy’s fray include…
Ari Fleischer
Paul Wolfowitz
John Bolton
Douglas Feith
Dick Cheney
Hate Radio
CNN
Fox News
Lou Dobbs
Glenn Beck
Billdo
The combined intelligence of these jokers could be surpassed by Shortbus riders.
March 26th, 2009 at 2:45 pmBill Kristol? Isn’t he crazy?
March 26th, 2009 at 2:48 pmWilliam: “Ya knuckleheads wanna keep pushin’ the PNAC stuff?”
March 26th, 2009 at 2:48 pmRobert: “Sointenly, nyuk, nuyuk”
Dan: “Of course, ya nitwit, I think we have to change the name so’s we can get away wid it.”
William: “Listen, numbskull, I do the thinkin here!”
It’s like some bad horror movie. Just when you think the monster is dead, it reaches up and grabs you by the ankle.
March 26th, 2009 at 2:49 pmKristol’s new foreign policy: kill and enslave.
March 26th, 2009 at 2:51 pmThat is the main trait of neocons.
March 26th, 2009 at 2:51 pmChickenshit Chickenhawk Kristol: Surge your and your neocon buddies asses to Afghanistan. It’s YOUR war, now kindly go DIE in it.
March 26th, 2009 at 2:53 pmFlagged for repeatedly idiotic post.
March 26th, 2009 at 2:54 pmPNAC 2.0… okay, but this time we’re on to you and we’ll be watching.
“OBLAMER will go down as the WORST pres. Ever in the history of the USA.”
At least you guys have provided some stiff competiton. He does enjoy a challenge, after all.
March 26th, 2009 at 2:56 pmAll meetings for the Foreign Policy Initiative will take place in lil’ billy kristol’s bedroom at his parents home on Sundays after church.
Please be high on coke, meth, or any illegal substance of your choice.
Hookers and Heroin served afterward.
March 26th, 2009 at 2:56 pmPlease RSVP
Hope to see ya there!
shoeless Says:
It’s like some bad horror movie. Just when you think the monster is dead, it reaches up and grabs you by the ankle.
Bill Kristol is Carrie?
March 26th, 2009 at 2:56 pm“Afghanistan: Window Dressing For Our Success” would be a better title.
March 26th, 2009 at 2:57 pmMarch 26th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
I hope the FBI is keeping a close eye on these Ultra Right Wing groups.
March 26th, 2009 at 2:59 pmHeh, I was just thinking, their first New American Century lasted about a decade.
Genius!!
March 26th, 2009 at 3:01 pmThese people must be marginalized. They pushed Clinton to sign that stupid Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 and use it as a fall back every time someone brings up Bush’s war of misadventure and conquest.
I have no doubt they will gear up for more of the same. You can see the same old playbook being used already.
March 26th, 2009 at 3:01 pmAnd Version 2.0 will be twice as wrong as the first.
March 26th, 2009 at 3:02 pm“A little bit of a political organization” for “the Fred Kagans and Bob Kagans and Reuel Gerechts of the world” wouldn’t “be bad,” said Kristol:
“Yes, it would” said ralph.
“It would be bad. Very, very bad.”
March 26th, 2009 at 3:02 pmThe blues brothers are getting the band back together.
March 26th, 2009 at 3:02 pmOff topic, but it needs to be mentioned here. The Republicants are working on an alternat budget one of its key points is (drum roll please…) Massive Tax Cuts for the Rich!
March 26th, 2009 at 3:02 pmI’ve heard of one trick ponies, but this is Way Beyond Insane!
Ya know, Bill, you would get lots more coverage if you suggested your people all wear the same clothes, so they could be easily identified as righteous Americans. Maybe a blaze orange armband with a nifty stylized logo.
I’d recommend a pile of Elephant feces but that’s just me.
March 26th, 2009 at 3:03 pmThe problem with Kristol is his overinflated idea of world order. Without one ounce of practical experience he (Kristol) has decided to solve the world problems on paper and therein lies the problem. Kristol needs to get his ass off a desk chair and go visit the middle east and other countries.
Really tired of these over educated numbskulls thinking that they have the answers to everything without giving any practical thought to the problems at hand.
March 26th, 2009 at 3:04 pmThe Weekly Standard is a free tabloid. Its the only way people will read it.
March 26th, 2009 at 3:04 pm“Foreign Policy Initiative” is far too bland for such an esteemed group of deep thinkers. They need to come up with something more profound that evokes the triumph of their past collaborations.
How about “Blackwater”? I understand that name is available.
March 26th, 2009 at 3:07 pmSo Kristol has brought together a group mental midgets that constantly get everything wrong…
….good luck with that, FK heads.
March 26th, 2009 at 3:07 pmThe last thing we need is another ‘Zionists for Israel Think Tank’ who’s goal is to drag America into war against every Arab and Muslim country in the Middle East.
How some military rabbis are trying to radicalize Israeli soldiers…
http://www.slate.com/id/2214440/
March 26th, 2009 at 3:08 pmjust another wingnut welfare boiler room
“fundraising” has probably tapered off for some of their other brand names
March 26th, 2009 at 3:11 pmYeah, hopefully they will have time, now that the Quakers are off the terrorist watch list.
March 26th, 2009 at 3:27 pm“Definition of insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” – Albert Einstein
March 26th, 2009 at 3:28 pmHas Dick Cheney signed on to write up their mission statement yet?
March 26th, 2009 at 3:30 pmAnd it’s still overpriced.
March 26th, 2009 at 3:32 pmHerpes by any other name…
March 26th, 2009 at 3:34 pmHow about, Iraq: The Sequel
March 26th, 2009 at 3:36 pmit’s a little OT, but I just ran Think Progress circulation versus the online version of the Weekly Standard:
Think Progress around 423,000
Weekly Standard around 239,000
the actual print circulation for WS was around 75,000.
As far as arguing the merits of Kristol, I’d question his relevancy or even the effectiveness of getting his message out at this point.
March 26th, 2009 at 3:37 pmSo, the Weakly Spamturd has a total of 314,000 readers. That is close to the number of troops General Zinni said would be necessary to invade and occupy Iraq.
March 26th, 2009 at 3:46 pmThose numbers really point to a lot of things, but to see Kristol still considered a ‘high profile’ voice only speaks to how far the imbalance of voice and objective relevancy has gotten in main stream media. There needs to be better communication of numbers like this. but instead, we see the same imbalanced quantites of republicans and conservatives given press, and the U.S. public believes that they actually have an influence and following on par with those that are progressive and at the very least moderate.
March 26th, 2009 at 4:02 pmlol, PNAC? Again?
March 26th, 2009 at 4:10 pmI wonder if Kagan is still pushing his League of Democracies, or Concert of Democracies or whatever they’re calling it now.
March 26th, 2009 at 4:11 pmare they really trying to re-open that can of worms? Do they really want people taking another look at PNAC? I thought they’d let that dog sleep a while.
March 26th, 2009 at 4:12 pmWell it worked so well the first time around with Bush.
March 26th, 2009 at 4:14 pmDan Senor? The former Pentagon/Iraq War propagandist?
March 26th, 2009 at 4:19 pmthat’s a neat trick kristol does.
he blows a whistle and as if
from out of nowhere a circular
firing squad appears.
::
March 26th, 2009 at 4:21 pmGreat. What American landmark do they plan on demolishing and pretending it was terrorists this time?
March 26th, 2009 at 4:33 pmTalk about something to be reduced in size until it can be drowned in a bathtub.
March 26th, 2009 at 4:50 pmKristol? Back again with a new strategy?
Just what we need!
ha ha
Comedy relief, doncha know!
March 26th, 2009 at 5:05 pmOh yes dear Bill, how many wars would you like to launch simultaneously this year, while you hide with Dick Cheney in your bomb shelters! Never have so many non-servers (all of whom are afraid of their own shadows) attempted to cause the useless death of so many — all for the wrong causes!
March 26th, 2009 at 6:17 pmWTF!
Did they add Senor so they could get his hottie wife to sell this BS?
All we can hope for is that their spawn will not take after them.
March 26th, 2009 at 6:18 pmWill the sign on the clubhouse door read “No Girls Allowed”?
March 26th, 2009 at 6:37 pmhaving looked via google earth at the location of the fox news studios in NYC, the close quarters and limited sight lines dictate that i should need no more than a 5x scope.
do they sell glasers in the tri-state area?
March 26th, 2009 at 7:32 pmshoeless Says:
Why can’t we make them go away?
March 26th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
Good question. I think it’s because they’re like warts. These pundits have imbedded themselves into the tissue of politics, and it may take some time to remove them without disturbing the healthy tissue. Day by day persistance with a gentle medication is usually prescribed.
March 26th, 2009 at 7:57 pmGod! Just what we need, another Republican idea. A junior PNAC. Another shot at America Inc. And we haven’t even begun to recover from the last one. Kristol wants to give it another shot, under another name. Complete destruction of any America that represents anyone but Corporations, Wall Street, the Military Industrial Complex and out sourcing our future.
Like the energizer bunny, he keeps on running. They keep coming up with their economic and morally bankrupt idea of Utopia. They spread their poison across America. They won’t be happy until all that’s left is the carcass. Then they will move on to another place more promising. I can just hear them now from whatever place they find. “Gosh it’s too bad about what happened to America, we’re lucky we got ours when we did.”
How I detest these poisoners.
March 26th, 2009 at 8:24 pmI read the blogs and you guys have covered all the bases. Another Republican think tank (I just got thinking of goldfish swimming around). The Republicans owe this country more and better that Kristol and company. I keep hoping for a real political party. They keep serving up hacks and left overs. You Republicans have to get serious about government. Are they all brain dead or dittohead?
March 26th, 2009 at 10:16 pm.
The Project for a New Fascist American Century 2.0
… What? Because the first go around was such a success?
.
March 27th, 2009 at 12:37 amHitler’s Third Reich lasted longer than these fascist Zionist clowns “century”.
They are nothing but a bunch of chickenhawk losers. They are irrelevant now that they’ve come out of the shadows and presented who they really are, who they really represent, and the death and destruction they leave behind.
March 27th, 2009 at 7:05 amNo, no this time it’ll be much better. I here that Little Billy’s parents had a hi-speed internet cable run out to his treehouse and they got one of those little college-sized refrigerators. Seriously though, the neocon strategy did NOTHING to protect America and actually ended up practically destroying our Nation through it’s wanton lies, smears, greed and bloodlust. Had George W. Shithead not been such a willing puppet for his BFFs Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Fleischer, Krystal etc. there would be many more American soldiers alive today (and countless less grieving family/friends), our debt would surely be much, much lower, our standing in the world would not have been ruined, not to mention all those Iraqi citizens that would still be alive. If anything they should be considered an imminent domestic threat to America’s safety. They need to be monitored, infiltrated, disbanded and most of them indicted for treason. Or like some have posted, suit ‘em up, give ‘em a gun and drop them off on the Pakistan/Afghani border.
March 27th, 2009 at 8:23 amSilly Corporate fascist and thier penchant for war profittering.
Wonder what will blow up next?
March 27th, 2009 at 9:46 am