This is an excellent article, written some ten years ago, that chronicles the rise of neo-conservatism and its roots in CIA-backed pseudo-journalism and pro-warfare state federal government propaganda.
The most chilling part is the last few paragraphs, which documents the implosion of foreign interventionism in the late 1990s. Does anyone around here actually remember the foreign policy platform that George W. Bush actually ran and won the presidency on?
How convenient for the neo-conservatives that 9/11 came along and overnight galvanized the public for the blood of squalid brown-skinned third world foreigners.
http://www.informationclearinghouse....rticle3700.htm