lurqer: this editorial may be right on target...
While the editorial sees the target, I am not sure it's "on target".
The thesis seems to be, that since the neo-cons hid their true agenda, they've "missed their chance".
I wonder if the worldview of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, his deputy, Paul Wolfowitz, Vice President Richard Cheney, Richard Perle, columnists William Kristol, Lawrence Kaplan, Robert Kagan and other members and leaders of the Defense Policy Board, American Enterprise Institute and The Project for a New American Century is already dead because not only did they not make a case for hegemony to the public, they never seriously attempted to even define the term or explain the concept.
An alternative hypothesis is that when faced with opposition, the neo-cons decided to create enough "facts-on-the-ground", that "there can be no turning back". If, with a Bush second term, they can present any new Admin with an existing Hegemony, and a hostile threatening world, any attempt at dismantling the Hegemony, would be a dangerous undertaking - not only for the troops abroad, but for domestic politicians. The MIC's future would be secure.
JMO
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