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Prof. Strauss and the neocon takeover
By Jim Silva
02/06/06 "Lompoc
Record" -- -- Have you seen the latest
blockbuster? Like Star Wars, it's classic good verses evil - a
power hungry dictator plotting to seize control of a goodly
Republic. The twist is it's for adults. Ones who know reality is
stranger than fiction. You guessed it! This epic thriller is
actually your life, and it's called “The Fall of the Republic -
Sleeping Through the Revolution.” Here's a behind the scenes
look:
Bush Jr. came to power surrounding himself with far right
“neo-conservatives” that his daddy called “crazies in the
basement.”
Who are the crazies? A militant, anti-communist group of mainly
Jewish intellectuals who studied the Trotskyite, Machiavellian
political philosophy of Prof. Strauss at the University of
Chicago. Wolfowitz, Ashcroft, Perle, Abrams, Chalabi, Bennett,
Ho, Shulsky, Khalilzad, Schmitt, Kristol, are a few of the
invasion architects, intelligence crafters, torture lawyers,
Iraq ambassadors and U.S. puppets who studied under Strauss.
Together with Straussian devotees at neocon and pro-Israeli
think tanks, they now control all powerful positions in our
government.
What do neocons believe and want? They are anti-democratic,
authoritarian, and they want power. Straussianism provides the
intellectual framework and personal justification for their
actions.
Strauss taught that an elite, wise ruling class must rule the
unsophisticated masses by telling them noble lies for their own
good.
Strauss loved Plato, interpreting his teachings to mean, “...
true democracy is an act against nature and must be prevented at
all costs.”
He wrote leaders must use religion to control the masses.
“Because mankind is intrinsically wicked, he has to be
governed,” Strauss wrote. “Such governance can only be
established, however, when men are united - and they can only be
united against other people.” Leaders must always provide an
enemy.
Straussian teachings spark delusions of grandeur in neocon
intellectuals, who imagine themselves as the wise ruling elite,
set free of the bonds of honesty and equality.
The Project for a New American Century think tank springs
directly from this authoritarian power cult. Cheney, Rumsfeld,
Wolfowitz, Bolton, Abrams, Libby, Perle, and others signed PNAC
documents in 1997 advocating aggressive, militaristic world
domination, domination of space, control of cyberspace (they
don't want much), permanent bases in the Middle East, and
employing troops in constabulatory (police) duties to enforce
U.S. world empire, Pax Americana.
Neocon papers are thick with delusional paranoia like the
following from Richard Perle, National Security Council: “No
stages, this is total war. We are fighting a variety of enemies.
There are lots of them out there. All this talk about first we
are going to do Afghanistan, then we will do Iraq . . . this is
entirely the wrong way to go about it. If we just let our vision
of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely and we don't
try to piece together clever diplomacy, but just wage a total
war . . . our children will sing great songs about us years from
now.”
Michael Ledeen, American Enterprise Institute Fellow, former
NSC, State, and Defense Department consultant and influential
White House advisor writes, “We can lead by the force of high
moral example ... [but] fear is much more reliable, and lasts
longer. Once we show that we are capable of dealing out terrible
punishment to our enemies, our power will be far greater. Š We
are a warlike people and we love war.”
Perle, Wolfowitz, Bolton and others have a long history of
calling for “winnable nuclear war.”
Henry Kissinger described the baffled response of established
powers in the face of revolutionary challenge. “Lulled by a
period of stability which seemed permanent, they find it nearly
impossible to take at face value the assertion of the
revolutionary power that it means to smash the existing
framework. Those who warn against the danger in time are
considered alarmists: those who counsel adaptation Š are
considered balanced and sane.”
This movie will soon be over. Better wake up your congressman.
Jim Silva is a resident of Lompoc. He can be reached at:
http://mysite.verizon.net/jazzyjim
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