Watch “Preventive Warriors”
\nonline<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>. This 2004 documentary, featured today on “Democracy Now!,”
\npresents expert commentary by Chalmers Johnson, Noam Chomsky, Rahul Mahajan, Phyllis
\nBennis, Mark Lance, Maria Ryan, Michael Klare, Tariq Ali and others on the neocon doctrine of
\npreventive war and the current U.S. regime’s ambition to dominate the world, militarily,
\neconomically and culturally.<\/P>
\n![](\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/images\/bushMOURNING2.jpg\")
<\/A>The doctrine is rational “within a lunatic framework,” Chomsky points
\nout, which is “not so unusual.” What is unusual, says Chalmers, is the in-your-face aspect of the
\nstrategy for “military dominance” originally laid out by Paul Wolfowitz in 1992. Chalmers also
\nsays he does not believe neocons are conservatives at all, new or old, but rather “serious radicals
\ncommitted to the militarization of the country.” <\/P>
\n
Or as Klare notes, there is a “crusading spirit” reflected in all the documents, an implicit belief
\nin American exceptionalism because “we’re chosen,” and it is “this mode of thinking [that] is
\ndeeply embedded in the Bush administration.” All of these document, Klare asserts, “are driven by
\narrogance.”
\n
Dear Leader, above, placed a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National
\nCemetery for all Americans to see. But his mismanagement of the war in Iraq — including poorly
\narmored Humvees, insufficient troop levels and no “peace” planning — means the deaths of more
\nsoldiers whose coffins his regime allows no Americans to see as they are being brought home for
\nburial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“Preventive Warriors,” a documentary about the National Security Strategy of the United States issued by the White House in September of 2002, is the perfect antidote to Dear Leader’s Memorial Day ravings (a pious official proclamation for “a day of prayer for permanent peace” and an imperial radio address to the nation that the U.S. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1127","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-ib","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}