AlterNet: The Anniversary of a Neo-Imperial Moment

The roots of Pax Americana created in 1992 by Cheney, Wolfowitz, and Libby. Rumsfeld and others signed on later.

This Imperial policy is a sharp departure from the decades long debate between a "realist policy organized around containment and deterrence to U.S. power; and a more liberal, internationalist policy based on the construction of a set of multilateral institutions and alliances to promote open market-based economies and democratic values."

They now don't want containment and deterrence - they want intervention and deference to the US as the world's only superpower.