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Arash
March 9, 2006
Iraq Invasion: A Straussian Mistake?
http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/2003/Leo-Conservatives-Spiegel4aug03.GIF
Leo Strauss, Fascist Godfather of the Neo-Cons
By Kurt Nimmo
In Stuart Rosenberg’s classic film, Cool Hand Luke [1], Strother Martin, playing the
Captain of Road Prison 36, tells Luke Jackson, played by Paul Newman: “What we have
here is… failure to communicate”. As I read the news this morning, I am reminded of
the film and this memorable line. Rupert Cornwell [2], writing for the Independent,
tells us “the neo-conservatives who sold the United States on this disastrous war are
starting to utter three small words. We were wrong”.
Rupert Cornwell cites the examples of William Buckley [3], Andrew Sullivan [4]
(described as “an influential commentator and blogmeister”), the “patrician
conservative columnist” George Will [5], Francis Fukuyama [6], [Pashtun criminal]
Zalmay Khalilzad [7], and the disgusting William Kristol [8], all who apparently have
second thoughts about the invasion and occupation of Iraq.
Rupert Cornwell seems satisfied these neocon icons, actually little more than common
criminals with expensive educations, have admitted they were “wrong” and have
accepted “realistic Wilsonianism” [9], in the words of Fukuyama, or as Cornwell pegs
it, neo-realism. [10] “And if that brings a smile to the face of a certain former
U.S. high priest of realism with a pronounced German accent, who can blame him?”
Cornwell concludes, apparently making reference to the Leo Strauss [11], the late
student of Nietzsche [12] and Martin Heidegger [13], the former exploited by the
Nazis and the latter having collaborated with them directly.
Cornwell fails to communicate the essence of the depth and severity of the Straussian
neocon [14] plot and instead concentrates on the “failure” of Iraq—and thus, as the
hackneyed old saying runs, Cornwell misses the forest for the trees. Regardless of
anything Francis Fukuyama has written as of late, the Straussian neocons will not now
“temper the idealism of the neo-conservative doctrine with an acceptance that some
things are not so easy to change”, viz., the United States cannot deliver democracy
to benighted Arabs and Muslims, as we are told, ad nauseam [extensively], Bush wants
to do, or wanted to do before reality hit him upside the head.
Zalmay Khalilzad warns that the invasion and occupation of Iraq has opened “a Pandora’s
box”, spreading “conflict”, as Cornwell describes it, across the Middle East. In
fact, this is precisely what the Straussian neocons want—chaos and “conflict” [15]
spreading like an uncontrollable wild fire, scorching Muslim and Arab culture, eating
away at the very societal cohesion of the region, thus leaving it decimated and
malleable to reorganization along the lines envisioned by the Straussian neocons and
the original architects of the plan, the racist Jabotinskyites in Israel [16].
Cornwell, lost in the forest of corporate media spin and lies, is unable to see the
tree planted by these devious Machiavellian co-conspirators [17].
Rupert Cornwell does not bother to take into consideration the trouble brewing over
Iran’s illusory nuclear weapons [18], simply another pretext for more violence and
misery, as a few neocons may step forward and admit “mistakes” over the invasion and
occupation of Iraq while their fellows prepare to repeat those “mistakes” in Iran.
As noted above, the actions of the Straussian neocons, following a well-established
pattern, are anything but mistakes. Iran realizes this. “The United States may have
the power to cause harm and pain but it is also susceptible to harm and pain”, Javad
Vaeedi [19], head of Iran’s National Security Council, declared as the United Nation’s
Security Council was manipulated into place, setting it up for a re-run. “So if the
United States wishes to choose that path, let the ball roll”. [20]
Javad Vaeedi was responding to Dick Cheney’s threat of “meaningful consequences”
(code words for mass murder and destruction) if Iran continues to refuse to go
prostrate. Vaeedi “declined to spell out precisely how Tehran would respond to
Security Council pressure but experts told London’s Daily Telegraph that Iran’s
options included driving up oil prices, blocking the passage of tankers through the
Persian Gulf, stirring more chaos in Iraq, fomenting violence against Israel or
promoting terrorist attacks against the West”, in short, exercising its only viable
options, since there is absolutely no way Iran can match the military prowess of the
United States.
Of course, in the weeks ahead, Iran will be vilified for attempting to defend itself,
as the Iraqis are now vilified (resistance is not only futile, it is the evil
handiwork of Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi and the ever useful “al-Qaeda” [al-CIA-duh]).
It should now be obvious the Straussian neocon plan not only includes an effort to
destroy Arab, Persian, and Muslim culture, but American culture as well. “The real
question is not whether the American military can topple Hussein’s regime, but
whether the American public has the stomach for imperial involvement of a kind we
have not known since the United States occupied Germany and Japan”, Lawrence F.
Kaplan [21], the neocon sidekick of William Kristol, remarked as the invasion of Iraq
unfolded. “The theory behind this, developed by Michael Doyle [22], professor of
international affairs at Princeton University, is that democratic governments are
reluctant to go to war because they must answer to their citizens. And the history of
liberal democracies, though comparatively short in the grand scheme of history, tends
to buttress his point”, explains Bruce Murphy, writing for the Milwaukee Journal
Sentinel. [23]
Leo Strauss, the grand daddy of today’s Straussian neocons, was opposed to classical
liberalism, as defined as the sovereignty of the individual, the very foundation of
the philosophy of John Locke [24] and Adam Smith [25].
As Michael Doliner [26] writes in a review of Dr. Shadia B. Drury’s [27] "Leo Strauss
and the American Right" [28], Strauss’ “vision was of a hierarchical society based on
natural inequalities and welded together with the fanatical devotion state religion
engenders”, an idea planted in his head in part by the Nazi Jurist Carl Schmitt [29],
a doctrine mixed together into a dismal hodgepodge with heaping portions of bellum
omnium contra omnes—war of all against all—cynicism extracted from the philosophy of
Thomas Hobbes [30].
“Strauss’s hatred of liberalism is so virulent that he sees the struggle against it
as a war, and in war all is fair. For this reason Straussians will use every dirty
trick they can think of in the democratic arena in order to defeat liberalism. While
doing so they will corrupt democracy itself. But since democracy is only a tool with
which to defeat liberalism in order to institute the true Straussian hierarchical
society, this is of little import. In the end they will jettison democracy if to do
so is expedient”.
In fact, Bush, the useful idiot sock puppet, unelected, court-appointed president of
the Straussian neocons, is in the process of jettisoning democracy—or rather, the
principles of our once proud constitutional republic—as the NSA “scandal” [31] and
repeated attacks against the Bill of Rights [32] make painfully obvious.
For the Straussian neocons, those of us alarmed and moved to action by the
in-your-face onslaught against the Bill of Rights are considered the enemy.
“Opponents of the ruling cabal, whatever their stripe, are ‘them’. Indeed, since the
cabal of philosophers is deceiving everyone else, even those who have joined the
cause out of religious zeal are, in a real sense, ‘them’. A small circle of initiates
who repel the advances of everyone else is a feature of the Straussian State. These
initiates are philosophers who rely on reason, and nihilistic reason tells them there
are no rules, none, in this domestic battle”, Michael Doliner continues.
In order to construct the Straussian hierarchical society required to wage total,
unrelenting, generational war, those opposed to the plan must be systematically
eliminated, a process well under way with the illegal use of the NSA’s massive
high-tech snoop apparatus. Of course, this apparatus is not employed, as we are
assured by a complicit corporate media, to ferret out “al-Qaeda” [al-CIA-duh]
telephone calls and email messages, but rather to locate and compile electronic
dossiers on critics of the Straussians, who will be dealt with in coordinated manner
after the next “Pearl Harbor” [33] event occurs—and no doubt the Iranians will
endeavor to provide this event after their country is brutally invaded, as Javad
Vaeedi promises.
It is foolish to consider all of this a “mistake”, an unintended result of the
over-zealousness on the part of a few “neoconservatives” who are in fact neo-Jacobins
[34], murderous radicals, as Professor Claes Ryn [35] and Paul Craig Roberts [36]
note. “More dangerous an enemy of the U.S. and its traditional values than Muslims,
neo-Jacobins have seized control of the Bush presidency and U.S. foreign policy. They
will stop at nothing to achieve their goal of World War IV in the Middle East”, Dr.
Roberts warns. “The neo-Jacobins are rushing to get America involved in a general
Middle Eastern war before Americans have time to think. The terrorist scare which
worked the first time is being employed again. Once we have attacked other sovereign
Islamic countries, we will have to bring back the draft in order to raise the
necessary armies or resort to nuclear weapons…. If the American public falls for the
second round of neo-Jacobin propaganda [in the current context, against Iran],
neither do they deserve, nor will they have, liberty and democracy”. [37]
In fact, we are well on our way to a Straussian hierarchical dictatorship in America.
Once the opponents are dealt with, either rounded up and forced into Halliburton
constructed concentration camps or slaughtered outright, the Straussians will
construct their nihilistic paradise of pseudo-masculinity based on a chicken hawk war
ethos, i.e., the bamboozled masses will be used as cannon fodder.
Not unlike George Orwell’s dystopian world [38], the New America of Straussian
fascism and total war will be unrecognizable to those of us who dream of resurrecting
a constitutional republic based on a classical liberalism so reviled by the
Straussian neocons, who we are told simply made “mistakes” and now wish to repent, or
at least explain themselves.
Of course, this fake and criminal contriteness is simply more deception, as one of
the primary tenets of Straussian fascism is deception, a tactic used to great effect
by Hitler and Nazis. Unfortunately, if we don’t get our act together and soon,
America will suffer the same consequences of Nazi Germany, or more likely a
consequence far worse.
Notes:
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[1] Cool Hand Luke is a 1967 American film.The main character 'Luke' is a prisoner
in Florida who refuses to submit to the system.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_Hand_Luke
[2] At last, the warmongers are prepared to face the facts and admit they were wrong
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/4e13c5ede00ac265
[3] William Buckley
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Francis_Buckley
[4] Andrew Sullivan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Sullivan
[5] George Will
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Will
[6] Francis Fukuyama
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Fukuyama
[7] Zalmay Khalilzad
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1249
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zalmay_Khalilzad
[8] William Kristol
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1254
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Kristol
[9] Woodrow Wilson, Idealism in international relations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idealism_in_international_relations
[10] Political Realism "Realpolitik", Realism in international relations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realism_in_international_relations
[11] Leo Strauss
http://www.onpointradio.org/content/2003/05/15/0515strauss1401.jpg
http://www.mafhoum.com/press6/165C39_fichiers/leo.gif
http://www.larouchepub.com/spanish/images/LeoStrauss.jpg
http://portland.indymedia.org/icon/2003/08/271005.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Strauss
Leo Strauss, Fascist Godfather of the Neo-Cons
http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2003/3011profile_strauss.html
The Essential Fraud of Leo Strauss
http://www.larouchepub.com/lar/2003/3011strauss_fraud.html
LaRouche Exposé of Straussian 'Children of Satan' Draws Blood
http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2003/3019lar_expose_strauss.html
The Secret Kingdom of Leo Strauss
http://www.larouchepub.com/pr/site_packages/2003/leo_strauss/3015secret_kingdom_ap_.html
Leo Strauss Chronology
http://www.larouchepub.com/pr/site_packages/2003/leo_strauss/3015strauss_chronology.html
[12] Friedrich Nietzsche
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche
[13] Martin Heidegger
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Heidegger
[14] Neoconservatism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism
[15] The strategy of tension
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategy_of_tension
[16] Revisionist Zionism of Zeev (Vladimir) Jabotinsky
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revisionist_Zionism
[17] Niccolò Machiavelli
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Machiavelli
[18] Nuclear program of Iran
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_program_of_Iran
[19] Javad Vaeedi
http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/rids/20060215/i/ra4247678573.jpg
http://www.mehrnews.com/mehr_media/image/2005/09/149182_orig.jpg
http://www.mehrnews.com/mehr_media/image/2005/09/149756_orig.jpg
http://www.mehrnews.com/mehr_media/image/2006/02/177913_orig.jpg
[20] Iran threatens oil action over UN referral for nuclear program
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,18409076%255E2703,00.html
[21] Lawrence F. Kaplan (Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute & Senior editor at The New
Republic)
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/military/jan-june01/nmd_5-1.html
http://www.aijac.org.au/updates/May-03/050503.html
http://www.nationalreview.com/interrogatory/interrogatory022403.asp
http://www.oberlin.edu/stupub/ocreview/2005/4/22/news/article3.html
http://veracity.univpubs.american.edu/weeklypast/111604/111604_tabletalk.html
http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/cspan.csp?command=dprogram&record=545003727
http://hnn.us/articles/12778.html
http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/Pictures/Persons/1008625/1008625-187268.jpg
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/images/military/jan-june01/51missile16.jpg
[22] Michael W. Doyle
http://www.law.columbia.edu/law_school/communications/reports/fall2003/mdoyle
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/03/05/michaelDoyle.html
[23] Neoconservative clout seen in U.S. Iraq policy
http://www.jsonline.com/news/gen/apr03/131523.asp?format=print
[24] John Locke
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Locke
[25] Adam Smith
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Smith
[26] Killing Democracy The Straussian Way
http://www.swans.com/library/art11/mdolin10.html
[27] Dr. Shadia Drury
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadia_Drury
[28] Professor Shadia B. Drury, "Leo Strauss and the American Right" (November 15,
1997)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312217838 (Paperback-1999)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312126891 (Hardcover-1997)
[29] Carl Schmitt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Schmitt
[30] Thomas Hobbes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hobbes
[31] National Security Agency (NSA) warrantless surveillance controversy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance_controversy
[32] United States Bill of Rights
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bill_of_Rights
[33] Japanese attack on the Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor
Pearl Harbor, the mother of all conspiracies -- President Roosevelt (FDR) provoked
the attack, knew about it in advance and covered up his failure to warn the Hawaiian
commanders. FDR needed the attack to sucker Hitler to declare war, since the public
and Congress were overwhelmingly against entering the war in Europe. It was his
backdoor to war.
http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/6315/pearl.html
[34] The Jacobins
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobin_Club
[35] Professor Claes G. Ryn
http://www.townhall.com/phillysoc/rynspeech.htm
http://politics.cua.edu//Information/Ryn/CV/cv.cfm
A Jacobin in Chief (April 11, 2005)
http://www.amconmag.com/2005a/2005_04_11/article2.html
Which American? (May 5, 2004)
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig5/ryn1.html
[36] Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Craig_Roberts
http://www.vdare.com/roberts/all_columns.htm
http://www.townhall.com/opinion/contributors/paulcraigroberts.html
http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts-arch.html
http://antiwar.com/roberts/
[37] Neo-Jacobins Push For World War IV (September 20, 2003)
http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts8.html
[38] Dystopian (Totalitarian)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dystopia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four