by Jim Lobe

Asia Times

02/02/05

Amid rising concern about the over-extension of US military forces and the growing budget deficit, the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), a neo-conservative group whose past foreign-policy recommendations have often been followed by President George W Bush, is urging Congress to add 25,000 new soldiers to US ground forces each year over the next several years. The appeal, which comes on the eve of Bush's State of the Union address, is certain to fuel the growing debate over whether Washington can afford the interventionist vision long espoused by PNAC and its highly influential founders -- that of a global 'Pax Americana' in which the US military in effect acts as the guarantor of international peace and security...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp