The agenda of the Project for the New American Century has been steadfastly preaching the imperative of world dominance in consistent accord with the precepts of the intellectual figure around which the movement developed, Leo Strauss.  Given the fertile oil deposits situated in the Middle East, this is particularly coveted territory on the world geopolitical map.

Examine Zbigniew Brzezinski's revealing work "The Grand Chessboard" and the game plan of the neoconservatives along with other New World Order globalists becomes abundantly clear.  

President Jimmy Carter's National Security Adviser exercised influence in generating U.S. assistance to the Taliban in an effort to topple the existing regime in Afghanistan, which was supported by the Soviet Union.  Under the pretext of fighting international Communism the Brzezinski-oriented globalists ultimately sought control of the Caspian Sea pipeline and the oil riches to be derived there from.    

Brzezinski wrote with blunt candor that what was needed for the United States to achieve global hegemony was a Pearl Harbor style event, which would enrage public opinion and sanction prompt American military action.  Read the ambitious designs clearly articulated by the PNAC New World Order globalists, where the term "New Pearl Harbor" conspicuously surfaced.