LING 501 Lecture Notes - Ron Suskind, Project For The New American Century, Al-Qaeda
Document Summary
Once the republicans return to the white house, bush immediately surrounds himself with neoconservatives drawn directly from pnac"s founding members. This explains why as soon as bush assumes presidency, he is eager to put pnac"s worldview into action --- which is a conclusion stated by ron suskind, and supported by many others. It"s really important to understand that pnac"s worldview encourages shaping the international security order in line with american principles and interests and strives to launch the us as the new hegemonic leader of the international world. So bush and his advisors saw hussein"s ongoing regime in iraq as the perfect example and ideal opportunity to put pnac"s plan into practice. But this was all established from the start, even before bush"s victory. Suskind quotes o"neill in his work, stating that they were planning to take hussein out and ultimately change iraq into a new country because this would solve everything.
