Very good explanation, Martian Observer.

By their own words and deeds, ye shall know them.

Here is the Web site of the main neo-conservative think-tank. And here is their Statement of "Principles"

Alphabetized list of the signatories to the PNWC Statement of Principles (boldfaced names are ones that anyone should recognize unless they've been living in a cave and surviving on lizards and bats for the last few years. Note how many of the signatories are in the government right now).

Elliott Abrams — Gary Bauer — William J. Bennett — Jeb Bush — Dick Cheney — Eliot A. Cohen — Midge Decter —
Paula Dobriansky — Steve Forbes — Aaron Friedberg — Francis Fukuyama — Frank Gaffney — Fred C. Ikle —
Donald Kagan — Zalmay Khalilzad — I. Lewis Libby — Norman Podhoretz — Dan Quayle — Peter W. Rodman —
Stephen P. Rosen — Henry S. Rowen — Donald Rumsfeld — Vin Weber — George Weigel — Paul Wolfowitz

THIS is pretty revealing.

I've heard some folks (invariably Republicans) try to blow off any mention of the Project for the New American Century as if it were some nutty "conspiracy theory" like the Illuminati or something, but that just doesn't wash. Although they did have offices of their own, I understand that they decided they wanted to keep a lower profile and now share offices with the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think-tank, despite the fact that some of the aims of the two organizations are in conflict. They do share most aims, however.

Read the articles on their own web site. They have been setting American foreign policy for the last several years.

Don Firth