I've been casting about to compose a post on the erstwhile Department of State's (DoS) "Future of Iraq" project, and I came across this reasonably well-known tidbit from the pages of neocon History. To be sure, it is to their credit that, unlike the White House's website on Saddam's "Apparatus of Lies" (painfully ironic in retrospect), they are brave enough to continue to show their history:
Such uncertainty will, by itself, have a seriously destabilizing effect on the entire Middle East. ...
In the near term, this means a willingness to undertake military action as diplomacy is clearly failing. ...
Although we are fully aware of the dangers and difficulties in implementing this policy, we believe the dangers of failing to do so are far greater.
Letter to President W. J. Clinton, January, 1998 - signed by:
| Elliott Abrams | Richard L. Armitage | William J. Bennett |
| Jeffrey Bergner | John Bolton | Paula Dobriansky |
| Francis Fukuyama | Robert Kagan | Zalmay Khalilzad |
| William Kristol | Richard Perle | Peter W. Rodman |
| Donald Rumsfeld | William Schneider, Jr. | Vin Weber |
| Paul Wolfowitz | R. James Woolsey | Robert B. Zoellick |
(shading = appointee of President G. W. Bush, some still "serving")
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