It's all you need to know. This former journalist from Richmond, VA is a neocon in disguise. I advise reading this entire article for valuable background.
http://www.worldpress.org/Americas/2030.cfmLiberal Hawks Ally With Project for the New American CenturyNeocons and Liberals Together, Again
Tom Barry
International Relations Center
February 16, 2005
The neoconservative Project for the New American Century (P.N.A.C.) has signaled its intention to continue shaping the government’s national security strategy with a new public letter stating that the “U.S. military is too small for the responsibilities we are asking it to assume.” Rather than reining in the imperial scope of United States national security strategy as set forth by the first Bush administration, P.N.A.C. and the letter’s signatories call for increasing the size of America’s global fighting machine.
The Jan. 28 P.N.A.C. letter advocates that House and Senate leaders take the necessary steps “to increase substantially the size of the active duty Army and Marine Corps.”
Joining the neocons in the letter to congressional leaders were a group of prominent liberals — giving some credence to P.N.A.C.’s claim that the “call to act” to increase the total number of United States ground forces counts on bipartisan support.
After an initial spate of public pronouncements after Sept. 11 and during the onset of the Iraq occupation, the Project for the New American Century is again positioning itself as the policy institute that will set the second Bush administration’s security agenda. Although P.N.A.C.’s 1997 statement of principles included only prominent right-wing figures — many of whom later joined the first Bush administration — the neocon policy institute has repeatedly reached out to liberals to give its public letters to the Congress and the president the gloss of bipartisanship.
Its new call for congressional leaders to increase overall United States troop levels includes endorsement of key liberal analysts.
Among the signatories are the leading foreign policy analysts at the Brookings Institution and the Progressive Policy Institute (P.P.I.), which are closely associated with the Democratic Party. The endorsees of the letter are largely neoconservatives who are principals in such neocon-led institutes as P.N.A.C., American Enterprise Institute (A.E.I.), Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, and the Center for Security Policy. However, this call for a larger expeditionary force was also signed by prominent liberal hawks, including Michael O’Hanlon, Ivo Daalder, James Steinberg, and Will Marshall — all of whom have signed previous P.N.A.C. letters and policy statements.(snip)
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