9/11: Paul Wolfowitz: Reagan redux?

Wed, 21 Apr 2021 14:52:05 GMT

WASHINGTON - Before the bombs began to fall on Sunday, the most hawkish voice in the Bush administration belonged to Paul Wolfowitz, the Deputy Secretary of Defense and a veteran of three previous Republican administrations. Forty-eight hours into the crisis, Wolfowitz bluntly stated US military goals as ending states who sponsor terrorism and began spinning plans for a massive offensive described by the London Guardian as open-ended war without constraint either of time or geography and potentially engulfing the entire Middle East and central Asia