snip
Chuck, there's nothing sudden about it, and the three stated elements of
strategy listed in your post are not mutually exclusive; nor were they
difficult to see right from the start by those who cared to look.
Yep, the PNAC site lays it all our pretty well.

This has
always been about the strategic securing of the mid-east
... Oil ...
and preventing
attacks, and doing so by killing or thwarting terrorists, the historically
chosen mo of the Arab/Muslim world.
And tell me abain how well has the west been about to pull this off over the
last thousand or so years? The middle east folks seem to have developed a
plans that has stopped every other agressor to visit thier lands. They have
had a lot of practice.

This has always been about western
representative governments, led by
Now here is an odd little snippet - tell me again about this coalition of
the willing? It will be very interesting to see how things go when the Brits
throw Blair out on his ass.

the US, telling the other large group of
world populace that, NO, we are not going to stand idly by while a
medieval
people
Telling choice of adjective. Would it would be better if they were ultra
modern? When the Soviets were telling the world about their intrests in the
middle east things somehow looked different from *our* point of view. I
doubt that the folks in the middle east saw a lot of difference.

with primitive theocratic notions of law and society
Right on! Tell that to the US religouis right!

destroys every
legal, social, and economic human betterment that western civilization has
generated in the last thousand years.

Destrction of everything we hold dear? Correct me if I got this wrong - as I
recall - they have been trying to get the west to butt out of their
business. In reading through the OBL stuff on the web, I did not see much
about the destruction of the west. Perhaps you have a cite that can clear
this up for me?

Mark Browne