and check what were the functions before, then and after of the people who wrote the documents or were involved and also what they wrote. Especially a document:
"Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources For a New Century," September 2000.
With the famous quote:
"Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor."
And exactly a year later, 9/11, conveniently for the writers, happened.
If I remember correctly everything was on their internet site, available even before 9/11 for everybody to read and think about it. Just checked: the Internet Archive has a first capture from one month after 9/11. Still, the document was made before.
"In Congress, a senior legislative aide said, “Some members are beginning to ask and to wonder, but cautiously.” For now, he told me, “the members don’t have the confidence to say that the Administration is off base.” He also commented, “For many, it makes little difference. We vanquished a bad guy and liberated the Iraqi people. Some are astute enough to recognize that the alleged imminent W.M.D. threat to the U.S. was a pretext. I sometimes have to pinch myself when friends or family ask with incredulity about the lack of W.M.D., and remind myself that the average person has the idea that there are mountains of the stuff over there, ready to be tripped over. The more time elapses, the more people are going to wonder about this, but I don’t think it will sway U.S. public opinion much. Everyone loves to be on the winning side.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_C...
and check what were the functions before, then and after of the people who wrote the documents or were involved and also what they wrote. Especially a document:
"Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources For a New Century," September 2000.
With the famous quote:
"Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor."
And exactly a year later, 9/11, conveniently for the writers, happened.
If I remember correctly everything was on their internet site, available even before 9/11 for everybody to read and think about it. Just checked: the Internet Archive has a first capture from one month after 9/11. Still, the document was made before.