Paul Wolfowitz, under secretary of defense for policy (the Pentagon's third-highest ranking civilian) ,takes the lead in drafting an internal set of military guidelines, called a "Defense Planning Guidance," which is routinely prepared every few years by the Defense Department. Wolfowitz's draft argues for a new military and political strategy in a post-Cold War world. Containment, it says, is a relic of the Cold War.
America should talk loudly, carry a big stick, and And if America has to act alone, so be it. Controversy erupts after the draft is leaked to the press. The White House orders Defense Secretary Cheney to rewrite it.
In the new draft there is no mention of preemption or U.S. willingness to act "Naturally the common people don't want war: Neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany.
That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.
That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers It works the same in any country." --From the Nuremburg war trial testimony of Hermann Wilhelm Goering, Marshal of the Nazi's Third Reich,Adolf Hitler's second in command and former head of the Gestapo Goering was tried, convicted and sentenced to death, but escaped execution by commiting suicide with a cyanide capsule.
"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land Nov.
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