2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: DLC's PNAC Document - Hillary Clinton On America's Strategy [View all]BlueStateLib
(937 posts)Its "Americas Pacific Century" speech, not "Project for New Americas Century". Will Marshall did not sign the January 26, 1998, PNAC regime change letter sent to President Bill Clinton as OP was trying to imply, nor was he one of the twenty-five people who signed the PNAC's founding statement of principles'. Will Marshall was on advisory board for "The Committee for the Liberation of Iraq" founded after 911 in 2002 not PNAC. Will Marshall signed "Statement on Post-War Iraq" below.
http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/images/uploads/Statement_on_Post-War_Iraq.pdf
Americas Pacific Century
SOS Clinton: "While stressing that the Obama administration will seek improved ties with China, Clinton used a speech ahead of an Asia-Pacific summit here to dissuade Beijing and others from thinking the United States is ceding its traditional role in the Pacific."
"With the United States facing a multipronged challenge from China, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared on Thursday that the 21st century will be "America's Pacific century" and said the region's problems require U.S. leadership."
"While stressing that the Obama administration will seek improved ties with China, Clinton used a speech ahead of an Asia-Pacific summit here to dissuade Beijing and others from thinking the United States is ceding its traditional role in the Pacific."
"There are challenges facing the Asia-Pacific right now that demand America's leadership, from ensuring freedom of navigation in the South China Sea to countering North Korea's provocations and proliferation activities to promoting balanced and inclusive economic growth," she said."
Clinton's remarks, in a speech at the East-West Center, were part of a campaign by President Barack Obama to "pivot" U.S. foreign policy to focus more intensely on Asia after a decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"One of the most important tasks of American statecraft over the next decade will be to lock in a substantially increased investment -- diplomatic, economic, strategic, and otherwise -- in this region,"
Clinton told students and scholars at the East-West Center, a Honolulu think tank.
March 25, 2002, Seventy-Two Percent of Americans Support War Against Iraq
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/11/us-apec-usa-clinton-f-idUSTRE7AA2S120111111
http://www.state.gov/secretary/20092013clinton/rm/2011/11/176999.htm
http://foreignpolicy.com/2011/10/11/americas-pacific-century/
http://www.gallup.com/poll/8038/seventytwo-percent-americans-support-war-against-iraq.aspx