Don't forget the Repubs rely on military industrial complex $ for campaigns and bringing home the pork (military earmarks) The PNAC was precisely about U.S. hegemony & now all they have is an answering machine after 4,000 deaths & 4-6 trillion $'s on the U.S.'s credit card after all the dust settles in a few more years.
Well, at least the Obama and the Democrats reversed all this. Let's hear it for "hope and change". Go team!