Sorry but I don't see what this article has to do with anything... of course there is a risk of getting killed if you go to a war zone.
So are they sacred just because they have lost people?
PNAC. Project for the New American Century.
PNAC consists of some of the following people:
Trent Lott, Richard N. Perle, Elliott Abrams, Dick Cheney, Paula Dobriansky, Aaron Friedberg, Frank Gaffney, Fred C. Ikle, Peter W. Rodman, Stephen P. Rosen, Henry S. Rowen, Donald H. Rumsfeld, John R. Bolton, Zalmay Khalilzad, Vin Weber, and Paul Dundes Wolfowitz
many of these people have in some ways connections to the oil industry as consultants or board members.
PNAC was formed in 1997 by a mix of conservative politicians and academics.. Already in 1998 under the government of clinton they started to put pressure on the government for a harder line against Iraq, as well as the construction of the missile defence system against so-called rogue states.. which I personally see as a break with the very foundations that NATO was build upon.. the anti-ballistic missile treaty.
The Key positions for PNAC's agenda is the defense strategy document, "Rebuilding America's Defenses". It is divided into the following categories:
1.
Develop and deploy global missile defenses to defend the American homeland and American allies, and to provide a secure basis for U.S. power projection around the world.
2.
Control the new international commons of space and cyberspace, and pave the way for the creation of a new military serviceU.S. Space Forceswith the mission of space control.
3.
Increase defense spending, adding $15 billion to $20 billion to total defense spending annually.
4.
Exploit the revolution in military affairs [transformation to high-tech, unmanned weaponry] to insure the long-term superiority of U.S. conventional forces.
5.
Need to develop a new family of nuclear weapons designed to address new sets of military requirements complaining that the U.S. has virtually ceased development of safer and more effective nuclear weapons.
6.
Facing up to the realities of multiple constabulary missions that will require a permanent allocation of U.S. forces.
7.
America must defend its homeland by reconfiguring its nuclear force and by missile defense systems that counteract the effects of the proliferation of ballistic missiles and weapons of mass destruction.
8.
Need for a larger U.S. security perimeter and the U.S. should seek to establish a network of deployment bases or forward operating bases to increase the reach of current and future forces, citing the need to move beyond Western Europe and Northeast Asia to increased permanent military presence in Southeast Asia and other regions of East Asia. Necessary to cope with the rise of China to great-power status.
9.
Redirecting the U.S. Air Force to move toward a global first-strike force.
10.
End the Clinton administrations devotion to the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty.
11.
North Korea, Iran, Iraq, or similar states [should not be allowed] to undermine American leadership, intimidate American allies, or threaten the American homeland itself.
12.
Main military missions necessary to preserve Pax Americana and a unipolar 21st century are the following: secure and expand zones of democratic peace, deter rise of new great-power competitor, defend key regions (Europe, East Asia, Middle East), and exploit transformation of war.
doesn't sound very pleasant to me... sorry to say...
Following is their own website.
http://www.newamericancentury.org/
other sources
http://www.pnac.info
http://home.earthlink.net/~platter/neo-conservatism/pnac.html
http://www.prisonplanet.com/analysis_louise_010603_pnac.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/stockbauer1.html
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/org/pnac.php
Dramatic increase in defense funding results in lucrative contracts to companies like United Defense, that in the first place is connected pretty much to the government.