Why are we in Iraq? ask the Bradley Foundation

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Bradley Fighting Vehicle

Where War Comes From

Sprawling report in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel makes
clear that Bradley Foundation is epicenter of Neocon
warmongering [...] The article makes clear that the
Bush Administration is completely reliant on
Bradley-funded think tanks to present alternatives for
its foreign policy. If the neocon vision should stall,
writes Bruce Murphy, the Republicans will fall back on
the [more] multilateral ideology favored instead by
"paleo" conservatives, represented by the Heritage
Foundation. [...] 



<http://www.jsonline.com/news/gen/apr03/131523.asp>

[...] The buzz in Washington and beyond has been that
President Bush's attack on Iraq came straight from the
playbook of the neoconservatives, a group of mostly
Republican strategists, many of whom have gotten
funding from Milwaukee's Bradley Foundation. The
neoconservatives differ from traditional conservatives
in favoring a more activist role for government and a
more aggressive foreign policy.

[...] "I think Bush has drawn upon that thinking,"
said Michael Joyce, who led the Bradley Foundation, a
leading funder of neoconservative thinkers, from 1986
to 2001. Joyce added that Bush's "key people,"
including Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense
Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Deputy Defense
Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, "were clearly influenced by
this thinking."

Under Joyce, the Bradley Foundation made 15 grants
totaling nearly $1.9 million to the New Citizenship
Project Inc., a group Kristol led and which also
created the Project for a New American Century, a key
proponent of a more aggressive U.S. foreign policy.
The foundation also is a significant funding source
for the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington,
D.C., think tank with many neoconservative scholars.

Perhaps more important, noted Joyce, the Bradley
Foundation was a longtime funder of Harvard
University's John M. Olin Center for Strategic
Studies, which until 2000 was run by Samuel P.
Huntington, who wrote the influential book "The Clash
of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order"
about the conflict between the West and the Muslim
world. Huntington trained "a large number of scholars"
who have helped develop neoconservative theories,
Joyce noted. [...] 

The neoconservatives argue that we no longer live in a
bipolar world, as when Russia faced off against the
United States. They see a unipolar world, with America
as the Rome of the 21st century, a colossus that can
dictate its will to the world, noting that America
spends as much on defense as the next 15 countries
combined and has troops stationed in 75 countries.

"The fact is," writes Charles Krauthammer, a
Washington Post columnist who espouses neoconservative
views, "no country has been as dominant culturally,
economically, technologically and militarily in the
history of the world since the late Roman Empire."

Hulsman summarizes the neoconservative view this way:
"We should acknowledge we have an empire. We have
power and we should do good with it."





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