National Security Strategy
of the United States and
the Project for the New American Century (PNAC)
During Aduly Study on February 23rd, Tom Ambrogi urged us all to
read two documents. The first is the National
Security Strategy of the United States. Signed by the President,
it represents the current administration's vision of America and
her role as the last remaining superpower in the world. Click
here to visit the official White House version of that document.
Tom Ambrogi also discussed a document written by "The
Project for the New American Century" (PNAC) whose founding
principles were signed by Elliott Abrams, Gary Bauer, William J.
Bennett, Jeb Bush, Dick Cheney, Eliot A. Cohen, Midge Decter, Paula
Dobriansky, Steve Forbes, Aaron Friedberg, Francis Fukuyama, Frank
Gaffney, Fred C. Ikle, Donald Kagan, Zalmay Khalilzad, I. Lewis
Libby, Norman Podhoretz, Dan Quayle, Peter W. Rodman, Stephen P.
Rosen, Henry S. Rowen, Donald Rumsfeld, Vin Weber, George Weigel,
and Paul Wolfowitz.
Many believe that much of the President's National Security Strategy
is based on the PNAC document, especially given that most of the
PNAC members are leaders within the Pentagon, State Department,
and the Department for Homeland Security.
- Click
here to read their document, entitled "Rebuilding
America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces, and Resources for a New
Century."
- Tom Ambrogi urged us to carefully read the President's
National Security Strategy and the New American Century organization's
Rebuilding
America's Defenses documents.
- Rob Martin recommends
this article (click here) by Wendell Berry as a shorter introduction
to issues surrounding the National Security Strategy of the United
States.
- Tom Henderson recently led an adult
study where he gave a compelling overview of both documents and
raised some significant ethical/religious concerns about the path
our nation is on.
- Click here to review
the slides from his presentation (requires Flash player).
- You can also download the entire PowerPoint presentation
by clicking here (Windows users
right-click and select "save as" to save to your
hard drive).
- You may also download the slides in
Adobe Acrobat format by clicking
here (Windows users who want to save the file to their
hard drives should right click and save the file).
- Tom recommends that you listen to the Terry Gross interview
of Joseph Cirincione of the Carnegie Endowment, who has been a
severe critic of the PNAC document, and her interview of William
Kristol, President of PNAC. Click on each link below to listen
to that portion of the interview:
NOTE:
If the links do not work, please search the NPR archives
for the April 1st interview.
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