New American Century lasts eight years

RIGHT WING US think tank, Project for the New American Century (PNAC), appears to have shut up shop if the disappearance of its web site is anything to go by.

Visitors to the PNAC site are being greeted with a message saying the site has been suspended and to contact the billing department. As it seems extremely unlikely that the Neocons have run out of cash, we must assume that the whole thing is all part of the grand plan drawn up by PNAC founders Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld , Paul Wolfowitz, Jeb Bush, Scooter Libby and Dan Quayle.

While the disappearance of the site and the - ahem - singular views it expressed might be good news for some, historians and Federal prosecutors will be relieved to know that there's an archive of the PNAC site on the WayBack Machine here.

And far from hiding in the White House basement hoping the nasty liberals go away, a number of PNAC members and sympathisers appear to have set up shop over at The American Enterprise Institute whose membership list contains some rather familiar names. µ