This from a conservative site:
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The neoconservative leanings of the PPI are also evident in the writings of "Progressive Internationalism" contributing authors. In a March 9, 2004 essay for PPI, Asmus and McFaul asserted that "a bipartisan consensus is emerging in America about the need to bring greater freedom and democracy to the Greater Middle East." Having signed on to the neocon agenda of invading Iraq, based on false claims about Iraq's stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, the liberal hawks after the invasion also became among the most vocal advocates of the regional political restructuring plans of such neocon institutes as the American Enterprise Institute and PNAC. Asmus and McFaul call for a tenfold budget increase for the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a quasi-governmental "democracy-promotion" institute that was established as a neoconservative political project in 1983. Despite their proposal that Middle Easterners themselves take charge of the region's democratization and restructuring, Asmus and McFaul proposed that NED work closely with business and labor in the political project of overhauling the greater Middle East, arguing that "nothing would set back the democratic cause in the region more than a premature American disengagement from Iraq, where a critical democratic transition is now underway" (PPI, March 9, 2004).
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PPI's parent organization, the Third Way Foundation, an umbrella group of the New Democrats in the DLC, describes itself as a nonprofit corporation. Between 2000 and 2002, the foundation received $225,000 from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation (a top right-wing foundation), according to data collected by Media Transparency.
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http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1534.htmlLetting the PPI speak for itself
http://www.ppionline.org/This assessment from CommonDreams
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0522-10.htmBut it all doesn't matter as long as Obama remains his own man. Nor do assertions of others. There may have been some shifting in opinion from the PPI as well. I will share an article I like concerning the geopolitical environment from my last issue of Foreign Affairs (published by the CFR) soon on someone's idea of what Obama should do. It was very good.