Submitted by John Stauber on
"Five years ago ... The
Weekly Standard made the broad, seemingly preposterous
assertion that America was entitled and even compelled to
engineer regime change in Iraq. But under the current
administration, driven by 9/11, that contention has become
conventional wisdom. ... 'I am impressed by their success,' said Senator John
McCain, whom The Weekly Standard supported for the
presidency. ... In
June 1997 [founding editor William Kristol] formed the Project for a New American Century,
which issued papers supporting essentially unilateralist
efforts to police the world. ... Signers at the time included many people who are now in a
position of power, including Vice President Dick Cheney and
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, along with ... Deputy
Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle ... . ... The Weekly Standard's willingness to domesticate and
Americanize the globe, at gunpoint when necessary, gives a
shiver of delight to most conservatives... . ... The man who runs News Corporation [which owns The Weekly Standard], Rupert Murdoch, has seen
his Fox News morph from a running joke to a runaway
success, and he is ... pleased to
match its mass with the class - and growing cachet - of The
Weekly Standard."
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