Neocon Middle East Policy: The Clean Break Plan Damage Assessment -

Adam Shapiro, E. Faye Williams, Khaled Dawoud, Muhammed Kaddam, William Martin

Institute for Research

2005

112 páginas

3h 44m

ISBN-13: 9780976443735

A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm is a definitive Middle East policy strategy authored and implemented by operatives at the highest levels of the U.S. government. However, there is just one problem: the plan was a strategy for Israel, not the United States of America.

Neocon Middle East Policy reviews the strategies and consequences of the "Clean Break" plan, authored by Richard Perle, David Wurmser, and Douglas Feith in 1996. It analyzes the core assumptions of the policy, the cost of tactics that have already been implemented, and discusses the likelihood that others will be executed in the future. Neocon Middle East Policy then addresses the most difficult questions of all: "Can a policy crafted for a foreign government and presented to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu serve as a blueprint for U.S. regional policy? At what cost to credibility, blood, treasure, and American integrity? At what cost to Israel?"

Neocon Middle East Policy is a must-read for anyone concerned about the convergence of U.S. and Israeli foreign policy in the Middle East.