MORE CONSERVATIVE SECURITY WEAKNESS

This is another example of the neo-conservatives failures on national security.

Back on Sept. 15, 1999, the Hart-Rudmann Commission published a report on the security challenges of the 21st Century. This was among the conclusions:

1. America will become increasingly vulnerable to hostile attack on our homeland, and our military superiority will not entirely protect us.

The United States will be both absolutely and relatively stronger than any other state or combination of states. Although a global competitor to the United States is unlikely to arise over the next 25 years, emerging powers--either singly or in coalition--will increasingly constrain U.S. options regionally and limit its strategic influence. As a result, we will remain limited in our ability to impose our will, and we will be vulnerable to an increasing range of threats against American forces and citizens overseas as well as at home. American influence will increasingly be both embraced and resented abroad, as U.S. cultural, economic, and political power persists and perhaps spreads. States, terrorists, and other disaffected groups will acquire weapons of mass destruction and mass disruption, and some will use them. Americans will likely die on American soil, possibly in large numbers.

Here's what the war whore wizards at the Weekly Standard ("Newt Gingrich’s Last Boondoggle") and PNAC thought of the commission :

In fact, the H-R commission has been something of a joke on the taxpayer almost since its inception.