Did Thomas Donnelly actually speed up America's decline?

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Instead of shock and awe,the Iraq war will be remembered for IEDs. He exposed America's military weakness,not it's strength.


http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/NAC304A.html

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1. Well Duh.

There were a number of us here who predicted that exactly what has happened would happen, and why, and the history of these things offers little room for the ignorant optimism of the PNACers.

Hubris brings Nemesis, and Nemesis hovers over us all now.

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2. Here's the rogues gallery that signed the PNAC document.

William Kristol, Gary Bauer, Jeffrey Bell, William J. Bennett, Jeffrey Bergner, Eliot Cohen, Seth Cropsey, Midge Decter, Thomas Donnelly, Aaron Friedberg, Hillel Fradkin, Francis Fukuyama, Frank Gaffney, Jeffrey Gedmin, Reuel Marc Gerecht, Charles Hill, Bruce P. Jackson, Eli S. Jacobs, Michael Joyce, Donald Kagan, Robert Kagan, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Charles Krauthammer, John Lehman, Clifford May, Richard Perle, Martin Peretz, Norman Podhoretz, Randy Scheunemann, Gary Schmitt, William Schneider, Jr., Richard H. Shultz, Henry Sokolski, Stephen J. Solarz, Vin Weber, Leon Wieseltier, Marshall Wittmann.

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3. And they will all soon be swept into the dustbin of history.

They can join Kissinger and Nixon and Raygun and the like there.
And Strauss.

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4. You'll also notice most are chickenhawks.

There will be costs to taking up what Thomas Donnelly, the principal author of the PNAC blueprint, calls "the free man's burden."