Tonio,
Interesting and I wish I could have seen the program...
Larry,
I suppose my fears (trying not to sound like a 'consipiracy theorist' which I certainly am not) would be two fold:
One would be that the agenda of this think-tank has now basically become policy for this administration. In other words, September 11th offered an easy catalyst for the Bush administration to put in place a policy it had long been going after anyway...the danger there, to me, is inflexibility and the implied inability the public would have to sway such a pre-determined policy.
My other fear comes from the doctrine they are proposing itself (assuming, as is reported, that this document is serving now as the basis for the current administration's world view). It seems to have just intentions of promoting world peace--Pax Americana--through projected military and economic might.
However, I can't help but think that (a) this type of idealism borders on extremism when you begin subscribing to the POV that the US knows what is best for the world and all it's peoples; (b) This underestimates the strength and value of popular opinion/will of the people, something which Democracy is supposedly founded upon; and (c) this is a short-sighted policy that will do nothing to deter the type of enemy we face today in terrorists or any extreemist, oppressed group.
There IS some merit in what they say and, honestly, you have to at least admire that they are advocating SOME sort of action and change (where we are getting NOTHING from the liberals)--I'm just not sure that this is what we're looking for...and if our foreign policy is/was being decided by people with these types of, let's face it, imperialist beliefs, that would certainly be a reason to be scared in my book.