"...the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing even – like a new Pearl Harbor." This became basis for the 2002 National Security Strategy of the United States below.
2002: The
National
Security Strategy of the United States"We must be prepared to stop rogue states and their terrorist clients before they are able to threaten or use weapons of mass destruction against the United States and our allies and friends."
From the Iranian perspective, Israel has not only successfully developed its own arsenal of nuclear weapons under a policy of "strategic ambiguity," it has also shaped U.S. policy through American neoconservatives with ties to the Israeli Likud party.
Brooks:
Israelization of AmericaThe brutal tactics of the Israeli "Defense" Forces have been denounced for decades by human rights groups, the United Nations, and scores of foreign governments. Is this how we want our own troops to fight?
For the past few months I have watched with bewilderment as America has adopted Israel's mistaken strategy in the Middle East. Will America take as long as Israel to realize that starting a war is nothing like finishing it, and that military occupation does not bring about peace or security?
Oct 2004:
Sidelined Neocons
Stoke Future FiresEhoing increasingly threatening noises from the government of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon about preventing Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, neocons are calling for Washington to undertake covert action, at the very least, to oust what some of them call the "terror masters" in Tehran as part of a more general "World War IV" against alleged Arab and Islamic extremism.
William Kristol, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowtiz, Elliot Abrams, Douglas Feith are some of leading self-identified neoconservatives in the administration and/or the public eye
Influential neocon Frank Gaffney, the founder and president of the Center for Security Policy (CSP) has laid out "a checklist of the work the world will demand of this president and his subordinates in a second term." The list, which begins with the destruction of Fallujah in Iraq and ends with the development of "appropriate strategies" for dealing with threats posed by China, Russia and "the emergence of a number of aggressively anti-American regimes in Latin America," also calls for "regime change" in Iran and North Korea.
March
2005: Warmonger Bolton to UN: Neocons on the RampageHe played a lead role in cajoling and threatening the U.N. to rescind the 'Zionism is Racism' resolution; for which he is owned. He spearheaded the U.S. campaign to undermine the International Criminal Court. He helped push Colin Powell to give the treacherously erroneous testimony before the Security Council just before the U.S. invasion/occupation of Iraq...
