I can see why someone would question this move. Scooter was a member of PNAC, involved with 9/11 and the Iraq invasion. PNAC was the neocon think tank that wrote Rebuilding America's Defences "Creating Tomorrow's Dominant Force" a year before 9/11. In it they claimed that.. "Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor."