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How so? I like that you're reasoning this out, I just don't see where you're going on that particular point. Help me out here.
The U.S. could use this strategy as an excuse to attack some country for other reasons (stimulate the economy, Oil, etc). Read 1984, everyday the U.S. becomes more like the distopia portrayed by Orwell. This strategy sounds like an excuse to justify some sort of imperial intent.
Yes, that's the suspicion. Especially when you read about The Project for the New American Century:

An obscure, ominous-sounding right-wing policy group called Project for the New American Century, or PNAC - affiliated with Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rumsfeld's top deputy Paul Wolfowitz and Bush's brother Jeb - even urged then-President Clinton to invade Iraq back in January 1998.

"We urge you to... enunciate a new strategy that would secure the interests of the U.S. and our friends and allies around the world," stated the letter to Clinton, signed by Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, and others. "That strategy should aim, above all, at the removal of Saddam Hussein's regime from power." (For full text of the letter, see www.newamericancentury.org/iraqclintonletter.htm)

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