The website of the Bill Kristolâ€™s Project for the New American Century (www.newamericancentury.org) has vanished. If you go to the site, you are diverted to another one that says, â€œThis Account Has Been Suspended. Please contact the billing/support department as soon as possible.â€ A metaphor, perhaps, for the bankruptcy of the ideas that inspired the project and the strategic disaster that they produced for U.S. interests in Iraq, the greater Middle East, and the wider world?

You can still find most of PNACâ€™s documents â€” including its letters and their signatories â€” through www.archive.org, but it seems that the original site is gone for lack of payment. While the site became effectively dormant in 2005, its sudden disappearance is somewhat alarming. What does it say about the new American Century itself, particularly in light of the slew of recent books on the decline of American power and the end of unipolarity? A coincidence or an augury?

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