Bill Kristol Is Going To Get His War

Source: New York Times, March 11, 2003 "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."