For decades, the American foreign policy establishment, which has been defined and dominated by the Council on Foreign Relations, has thrived by creating or nurturing foreign threats - the Soviet Union being the most prominent example. The presence of such an external threat has been used to justify the maintenance of entangling alliances abroad and the centralization of power at home. This explains the curious indestructibility of Saddam Hussein - a point made by Fareed Zakaria, managing editor of the CFR's flagship journal Foreign Affairs. If Saddam Hussein did not exist, we would have to invent him. He is the linchpin of American policy in the Mideast.
Nothing destroys an alliance like the disappearance of the enemy.
Saddam is able to manage this because he is a rapacious dictator who runs a police state. A true isolationist would have only a literal conception of national security - a purely defensive definition. Like most of his neo-con disciples, Kristol believes that America has no rationale for existence unless it is actively going abroad in pursuit of monsters to destroy. Neo-fascist environmental organizations are not timid when it comes to furthering their agenda. Not content with this enormous acreage, the green gestapos also want to incorporate the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness and adjacent roadless areas for a grand total of 15,800 square miles.