Saturday, April 29, 2006

The Colbert Report: Bill Kristol Interview

Stephen Colbert interview's Fox News' Bill Kristol about the PNAC (Project For the New American Century) and other current events. For those who don't know, the PNAC wrote several reports in the mid-90's that called for: a larger military, more aggressive use of the military to protect U.S. interests, and a general call for America to assume "global leadership".

One report that was brought to my attention following 9/11 was called: "Rebuilding America's Defenses". This paper outlined a plan for America to develop an even stronger, larger, and more dominant military. In fact, there's even one creepy sentence regarding the prospects of "selling" such an increase in military might that reads:
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.

Mind you that this was passage was written in September 2000. The entire paper can be read here.

Ironically, Colbert feels like one of the more difficult interviews I've ever seen Kristol give.

See the video HERE. (thanks to crooksandliars.com)

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