This from usenet...some see it as just plain boring but it's far from that if you see what they actually want.
THE NEOCON MANIFESTO
1. Our first objective is to prevent the re-emergence of a
new rival, either on the territory of the former Soviet
Union or elsewhere, that poses a threat to the order of that
posed by the former Soviet Union. This is a dominant
consideration underlying the new regional defense strategy
and requires we endeavour to prove any hostile power from
dominating a region whose resources would, under
consolidated control, be sufficient to generate global
power.
2. The U.S. must show the leadership necessary to establish
and protect a new order that holds promise of convincing
potential competitors that they need not aspire to a greater
role or pursue a more aggressive posture to protect their
LEGITIMATE interests. In non-defense areas, we must account
sufficiently for the interests of the advanced industrial
nations to discourage them from challenging our leadership
or seeking to overrun the established political or economic
order. WE MUST MAINTAIN THE MECHANISMS FOR DETERRING
COMPETITORS FROM EVEN ASPIRING TO A LARGER REGIONAL OR
GLOBAL ROLE.
3. Like the coalition that opposed Iraqi aggression, we
should expect future coalitions to be ad hoc assemblies,
often not lasting beyond the crisis being confronted, and in
many cases carrying out only general agreement over the
objectives to be accomplished. Nevertheless, the sense that
the world order is ultimately backed by the U.S. will be an
important stabilizing factor.
4. While the U.S. cannot become the world's policeman, by
assuming responsibility for righting every wrong, we will
retain the preeminent responsibility for addressing
SELECTIVELY those wrongs which threaten not only our
interests, but those of our allies or friends, or which
would seriously unsettle international relations.
5. We continue to recognize that collectively the
conventional forces of the states formerly comprising the
Soviet Union retain the most military potential in all of
Eurasia, and we do not dismiss the risks to stability in
Europe from a nationalist backlash in Russia or efforts to
reincorporate into Russia the newly independent republics of
Ukraine, Belarus, and possibly others ... We must, however,
be mindful that democratic change in Russia is now
irreversible, and that despite its current travails, Russia
will remain the strongest military power in Eurasia and the
only power in the world with the capacity of destroying the
United States.
6. In the Middle East and Southeast Asia, our overall
objective is to remain the predominant power in the region
and preserve the U.S. and Western access to the region's
oil.
This document was prepared primarily by Paul Wolfowitz. It
was leaked to the New York Times in 1992-93. There was a
firestorm of controversy, and the document was redrafted in
more politically correct language.
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We don't even know for sure if it wasn't edited in. Its possible surely? I wouldn't really want to comment much but often these things can be very out of context with no knowledge of prior or post information. For all we know the guy that did that could be plagued with the trauma of it for the rest of his life. People in war time situations rarely come out unscathed no matter what and are often asked to perform disgusting jobs which we would rather not know about.