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 | | Both Friedberg and Libby, as well as Cheney, Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld and 21 other prominent right-wingers, signed the 1997 founding charter of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), which called for the adoption of a "'Reaganite' policy of military strength and moral clarity". |
 | | Friedberg also signed another PNAC letter to Bush on September 20, 2001, which called for the "war on terrorism" to be directed against Iraq and other anti-Israel forces in the Middle East, in addition to al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan. |
 | | Moreover, writes Friedberg, China "will be a very different kind of strategic competitor from the Soviet Union", given its size, dynamism and relative openness, all of which could work against Washington's ability to contain it in the coming years. |
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