codpiece hagiography: I've got it.

Tuesday, August 17

I've got it.

We have all heard of the "new Pearl Harbor" quote from PNAC's (Project for a New American Century). I read it myself a year and a half ago, but since then have been unable to find those words in the document in question. Yeah I know, I could have read the whole thing, but I always found better things to do with my time. The Money quote from a piece called "Rebuilding America's Defense" written in September 2000 is on page 51. Thanks to marie_aey on a Kerry-Edwards forum. A pdf is available here. Starting at the bottom of page 50, is the set up:

A transformation strategy that solely pursued capabilities for
projecting force from the United States, for example, and sacrificed
forward basing and presence, would be at odds with larger American
policy goals and would trouble American allies.

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So as we approach the three year anniversary of this document's publication, it is nice to see that this particular sentence has not been deleted or re-written. So feel free to have a gander at what for me has been about the most amazing thing I have laid my eyes on.

They may not have looked the other way on 9/11, but they sure ran with that ball when it was handed to them.

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Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of it as a final resting place for those who died here that that nation might live. This we may, in all propriety do. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have hallowed it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

It is rather for us the living, we here be dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth."