Quick heads up for tonight:
Frontline is broadcasting a program on Vice President (the Master Gepeto of the Bush Theater of Cruelty) Dick Cheney, tonight at 9 Eastern time. Check the web site for local listings.
Here's what Frontline says by way of introducing this peek into the black hole of US government sanctioned illegal activities:
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Here's what Frontline says by way of introducing this peak into the black hole of US government sanctioned illegal activities:
On September 11, 2001, deep inside a White House bunker, Vice President Dick Cheney was ordering U.S. fighter planes to shoot down any commercial airliner still in the air above America. At that moment, CIA Director George Tenet was meeting with his counter-terrorism team in Langley, Virginia. Both leaders acted fast, to prepare their country for a new kind of war. But soon a debate would grow over the goals of the war on terror, and the decision to go to war in Iraq. Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and others saw Iraq as an important part of a broader plan to remake the Middle East and project American power worldwide. Meanwhile Tenet, facing division in his own organization, saw non-state actors such as Al Qaeda as the highest priority. FRONTLINE's investigation of the ensuing conflict includes more than forty interviews, thousands of pages of documentary evidence, and a substantial photographic archive. It is the third documentary about the war on terror from the team that produced Rumsfeld's War and The Torture Question.
My first question is this: just what does "project American power" mean? A working definition seems to be: engage in criminal activities, both at a national and international level. I don't mean to be either a knee-jerk or a jerk. Can someone give me a better reading of this most-favored phrase from the PNACkery handbook?
Much more available on the web site, including a preview.
Apologies for this "non" diary. No open threads.