Word is that the Project for the New American Century is disbanding, closing their offices, and allowing their so-called "think-tank" to be absorbed by the larger American Enterprise Institute (another conservative "think-tank"). The reason they give is that the PNAC's mission of maintaining the United States as the world's sole superpower has been accomplished (a statement that tends to cause any thinking person's eyebrows to crawl swiftly up their forehead). But the actual reason (admitted in private, and very quietly) is that the people they relied on to do the job have made a pig's breakfast of the whole thing. Rumsfeld totally mismanaged the war on Iraq, Bush has turned out to be a idiot, and the American public is becoming increasingly aware of the large number of Republicans who have been caught involved in blatant corruption.

So the PNAC has gone upstairs to hide in a closet in the AEI offices, sulk, try to pull up their socks, and plan their next move.

Don Firth

P. S. So very sad (sob!)