Gaffney's Neocon Imperialist Game Plan

Despite the fact that he says that it does not constitute “some sort of neocon “imperialist” game plan”, Frank Gaffney gives exactly that when he outlines what he calls “a checklist of the work the world will demand of this president and his subordinates in a second term.” From the National Review Online, Gaffney's “Worldwide Value” lists seven areas of concern for the Bush second term:

• Dealing with insurgent strongholds in Iraq;
  
• Regime change — one way or another — in Iran and North Korea;
  
• Providing the substantially increased resources needed to re-equip a transforming military and rebuild human-intelligence capabilities;
  
• Homeland protection;
  
• Protection of Israel;
  
• Dealing with France and Germany, “namely, their willingness to make common cause with our enemies for profit, and their desire to employ a united Europe and its new constitution — as well as other international institutions and mechanisms — to thwart the expansion and application of American power where deemed necessary by Washington”;and
  
• “Adapting appropriate strategies for contending with China's increasingly fascistic trade and military policies, Vladimir Putin's accelerating authoritarianism at home and aggressiveness toward the former Soviet republics, the worldwide spread of Islamofascism, and the emergence of a number of aggressively anti-American regimes in Latin America.”

While the objectives Gaffney identifies are reasonable (who could argue against protecting the homeland, taking out the militias in Iraq?), I don't always like the way Gaffney expresses them or justifies them. I think the last two especially were poorly worded.