PNAC No More?

The website of the Bill Kristol’s Project for the New American Century (www.newamericancentury.org) has vanished. If you go to the site, you are diverted to another one that says, “This Account Has Been Suspended. Please contact the billing/support department as soon as possible.” A metaphor, perhaps, for the bankruptcy of the ideas that inspired the project and the strategic disaster that they produced for U.S. interests in Iraq, the greater Middle East, and the wider world?

You can still find most of PNAC’s documents — including its letters and their signatories — through www.archive.org, but it seems that the original site is gone for lack of payment. While the site became effectively dormant in 2005, its sudden disappearance is somewhat alarming. What does it say about the new American Century itself, particularly in light of the slew of recent books on the decline of American power and the end of unipolarity? A coincidence or an augury?

Jim Lobe

Jim Lobe served for some 30 years as the Washington DC bureau chief for Inter Press Service and is best known for his coverage of U.S. foreign policy and the influence of the neoconservative movement.

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  1. Ahahaha! Right on, Ev.

    Unfortunately, the repercussions won’t die so ignominiously.

  2. Actually, that little warning message usually gets put up anytime a hosting company has reason to believe that the mail server of the domain has been compromised and is spewing out spam.

    It’s happened to me. Pointed out that if they would pay attention to the bounce messages, they could have seen that my email address was being spoofed.

  3. Or perhaps they wanted to get rid of the easy evidence of their complicity in the war crimes commited by this administration, including many of their members?

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