I get the point of CW's post, as do you I'm sure Kap, and sure I also see that it might be unfair to say people in tha Administration are looking for a literal Armageddon (sp?).
But, it is quite true that many in the Administration are the same scary PNAC crowd that have signed off on a document HOPING for something like a 9-11 (hoping, not planning, this is not conspiracy theory it is there on page 66 of the PNAC blueprints, I am not making it up) - not because they revel in tragedy of this magnitude but because a 'catalyzing event' loke a 'modern Pearl Herbor' would remove some of the impediments (the pesky former will of Americans for justice and justification of action over vengeance) to the Pax Americana they so desire.
Perle, Rove, Rummy, Wolfowitz, etc. are, to a man, very dangerous people with very dangerous idaes about what the world should look like. Baby Bush is a dangerous person because he is of like mind (such as it is) and has surrounded himself with coldly calculating advisors who do have bigt plans for the world and care not if the world happens to object.