Main areas of current conservative dispute include immigration policy, stem cell research, levels of troop commitments in Iraq, democratization policy, Israel, and U.S. relations with China, North Korea, and Iran. Although the neocon camp and its allies, including Cheney's foreign policy team, are all hardliners with respect to Iran, there are public differences about which groups should receive U.S. assistance. While the leading neocon figures on Iran policy, such as Michael Rubin and Kenneth Timmerman, oppose funding the Mujahedin e-Khalq (MEK), an Iranian resistance group with militants in Iraq, other players in the Iran policy debate, such as Raymond Tanter and the Iran Policy Committee, are MEK boosters.
Another widening divide among neocons surfaced in the immigration debate, with an increasing number of neoconservatives—including Perle, David Frum, and Gaffney—distancing themselves from the neocon historical support for a liberal immigration policy, while others, notably William Kristol, have been sharply critical of social conservatives for their restrictionist positions. Two neoconservative centers—FDD and especially the Center for Security Policy—have positioned themselves in the restrictionist camp.
Funding. From 2000 to 2005, PNAC received $241,735 in grants from several conservative foundations, including the Earhart, Olin, and William H. Donner foundations (Media Transparency, "Grants to the PNAC"). From 1994 to 2005, the New Citizenship Project, which sponsored PNAC and whose chairman is Kristol, received $3.5 million in grants, largely from the largest right-wing foundations: Bradley, Olin, and the Scaife Foundations. The Bradley Foundation has been PNAC's largest source of foundation support, granting PNAC $800,000 from 1997 to 2005. In its first year of operations, PNAC received grants from Bradley, Sarah Scaife, and Olin foundations (Media Transparency, "Grants to New Citizenship Project, Inc.").
Lists of Signatories
Complete list of PNAC letter signers, study participants, and contributing writers (1997-2003)
PNAC Reagan admin signatories
PNAC Bush I signatories
PNAC Bush II signatories
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www.newamericancentury.org/aboutpnac.htm.
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