"Five years ago ... The
Weekly Standard [3] 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 [4], whom The Weekly Standard supported for the
presidency. ... In
June 1997 [founding editor William Kristol] formed the Project for a New American Century [5],
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."