Dick Cheney’s Song of America

[NVMojo]

November 5, 2005
Harper's Magazine, Oct 2002, Vol. 305, Issue 1829 - 2002-10-01

The Plan is for the United States to rule the world. The overt theme is unilateralism, but it is ultimately a story of domination. It calls for the United States to maintain its overwhelming military superiority and prevent new rivals from rising up to challenge it on the world stage. It calls for dominion over friends and enemies alike. It says not that the United States must be more powerful, or most powerful, but that it must be absolutely powerful.

Few writers are more ambitious than the writers of government policy papers, and few policy papers are more ambitious than Dick Cheney’s masterwork. It has taken several forms over the last decade and is in fact the product of several ghostwriters (notably Paul Wolfowitz and Colin Powell), but Cheney has been consistent in his dedication to the ideas in the documents that bear his name, and he has maintained a close association with the ideologues behind them. Let us, therefore, call Cheney the author, and this series of documents the Plan.

The Plan was published in unclassified form most recently under the title of Defense Strategy for the 1990s, (pdf) as Cheney ended his term as secretary of defense under the elder George Bush in early 1993, but it is, like “Leaves of Grass,” a perpetually evolving work. It was the controversial Defense Planning Guidance draft of 1992 – from which Cheney, unconvincingly, tried to distance himself – and it was the somewhat less aggressive revised draft of that same year. This June it was a presidential lecture in the form of a commencement address at West Point, and in July it was leaked to the press as yet another Defense Planning Guidance (this time under the pen name of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld). It will take its ultimate form, though, as America’s new national security strategy – and Cheney et al. will experience what few writers have even dared dream: their words will become our reality.

The Plan is for the United States to rule the world. The overt theme is unilateralism, but it is ultimately a story of domination. It calls for the United States to maintain its overwhelming military superiority and prevent new rivals from rising up to challenge it on the world stage. It calls for dominion over friends and enemies alike. It says not that the United States must be more powerful, or most powerful, but that it must be absolutely powerful.

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[bigbrother05]

1. Have book marked and recommend

evil superpower Will have to read the rest later.

[spindrifter]

2. So where do they

factor in history--which shows a pattern of growth of powers and dwindling of them. Where did they factor in the impacct that IT has had on India and China? And what did they think they could really do about it. If you go to small towns in the middle of Turkey, for example, you will find little boys chatting with friends all over the place on the internet. These are not likely to grow into men that will be swept aside by The Plan.

[StClone]

3. A plan that American can not afford

It looks like the over-arching attempt to protect our country (its wealthy and their power) cost too much even for good old USA. Iraq for example is breaking the bank and it is the size of Texas. Maybe trying to live with the world we'd get a more sustainable result.

[NVMojo]

4. yep, yep, yep!