...allies linked to challenges to regimes that are hostile to American interests, and an endorsement of 'America's unique role in preserving and extending...friendly to our security, our prosperity, and our principles'. Three years later, when President George W Bush entered the White House, many of these...

...to promote the cause of political and economic freedom abroad. "We need to accept responsibility for America's unique role in preserving and extending...friendly to our security, our prosperity, and our principles." Such a Reagan-ite policy of military strength and moral clarity may not be fashionable...

...spending significantly," to challenge "regimes hostile to US interests and values," and to "accept America's unique role in preserving and extending...friendly to our security, our prosperity, and our principles."320 These principles matter because they were signed by a group which has now become "a...

...promote the cause of political and economic freedom abroad; • we need to accept responsibility for America's unique role in preserving and extending...friendly to our security, our prosperity, and our principles. Such a Reaganite policy of military strength and moral clarity may not be fashionable today....

..."challenge regimes hostile to our interests or values," and a moral commitment to "accept responsibility for America's unique role in preserving and extending...friendly to our security, our prosperity, and our • • i 4-R principles. Two other points in the 1997 statement foreshadow what would become central...

...is rooted in the neoconservative belief that the United States needs to "accept responsibility for America's unique role in preserving and extending...friendly to our security, our prosperity, and our principles." 13 The doctrine of US exceptionalism, however, poses several problems for global and US...

...promote the cause of political and economic freedom abroad; • we need to accept responsibility for America's unique role in preserving and extending...friendly to our security, our prosperity, and our principles. ' Robert Kagan (2003), however, argues that Europe and America view the world and its problems...

...American Century (PNAC), dedicated to persuading Americans that "we need to accept responsibility for America's unique role in preserving and extending...friendly to our security, our prosperity, and our principles"—all of which PNAC understood to require "a Reaganite policy of military strength and...

...Included in PNAC's 'Statement of Principles' are an insistence on the "need to accept responsibility for America's unique role in preserving and extending...friendly to our security, our prosperity, and our principles"; as well as the "need to ... challenge regimes hostile to our interests and values". The...

...aimed to put the United States back on a course toward "global leadership" where America accepts its "unique role in preserving and extending an international...friendly to our security, our prosperity, and our principles."3 From its inception in 1997, the Holy Grail of the group was to remove Saddam Hussein...