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'''Project For New American Century''' is a [[neoconservative]] think tank ~~funded by~~ [[~~William Kristol~~]] and [[~~Richard Perle~~]]~~. Its current chairman is William Kristol~~.

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'''Project For New American Century''' is a [[neoconservative]] [[think tank]] whose goal is to

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rebuild and maintain America's [[defense posture]] and preserve [[peace]].

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Prominent politicians, journalists and scholars associated with the Project For New American Century include [[Charles Krauthammer]], [[Paul Wolfowitz]], [[Lewis Libby]], [[Jeb Bush]], [[Richard Perle]], [[Dick Cheney]], [[William J. Bennett]], [[Norman Podhoretz]], [[Dan Quayle]], [[Abram Shulsky]], [[Frank Gaffney]], [[Zalmay Khalilzad]], [[R. James Woolsey, Jr.]], [[Rudy Boschwitz]], [[Eliot A. Cohen]], [[Steve Forbes]], [[Michael Ledeen]], [[Dov Zakheim]], [[Richard Armitage]], [[Robert Zoellick]], [[Paula Dobriansky]] and [[Aaron Friedberg]].

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~~PNAC's stated goal~~ is ~~to promote global American leadership (which they call "Pax Americana"), rebuilding~~ and ~~maintaining America's defense posture and the preservation of peace~~.

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It is funded by [[Richard Perle]] and chairman [[William Kristol]].

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~~"Further, 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"~~

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The above statement is taken from Section V of "Rebuilding America's Defenses," a document which they published in September 2000. [[9/11 conspiracy theories|Conspiracy theorists]] claim that this quote implies foreknowledge of [[9/11]].

==References==

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