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The National Review mind
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is Neoconservative.
That's a BAD thing.
Although there are probably as many different interpretations of Strauss's teachings as there are Straussians, the three basic principles that the neocons glean from Strauss and Wohlstetter are:
1) There are a few superior people born to lead and the rest are merely followers who must be deceived and lied to if necessary by these leaders to be directed to the "right" path.
2) The powerful have the right to rule, and America must use its unchallenged power to control the rest of the world in order to enforce our own best interests and prevent any future rivals from emerging.
3) Religion is essential in the masses, as it makes them far easier to manipulate and control, but the true leaders should be free of religion and morality.
Neoconservatism, therefore, is inherently totalitarian at the least, and is certainly fascist as well, and it makes no apologies for it.
These guys run the country, they run they military-industrial complex, and they run you.
And you and everything you hold dear is disposable. All these guys know is their cravings for more wealth and for more power.
If these guys win you'll be thanking God that you are not young in so thoroughly finished a world.
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How much credence should Gen. Petraeus' reports be given?
[Read the article: How much credence should Gen. Petraeus' reports be given?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]None.
Bushites lie as a matter of policy and standard procedure, even when the truth would actually serve their purposes better.
Next.
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Terminal narcissism.
[Read the article: My therapist is making faces at me]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Does anybody know anybody who has actually been helped by 'therapy'?
The narcissistic are almost universally gullible.
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Nobody seems to have noticed, but
[Read the article: Kit Bond and the credibility of war supporters]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It is now illegal to be against the war:
Bush Outlaws All War Protest In United States
http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1023.htm
In black-and-white BushWorld, everything not forbidden is required. Since opposing the war is now forbidden, it is therefore required to be for the war.
With its stress upon the irrational, upon instincts and activism, fascism insists upon the 'iron logic of nature' which will always make the strong prevail over the weak, the more resolute over the irresolute, and thus aims at educating the nation to develop strength, courage, and resolve, and by these means to ensure its victory. All fascist activity is devoted to this preparation for what it regards as the inevitable and beneficial struggles which form the life of nations.
Fascism, therefore, repudiates above all else the idea of peace and harmony. "War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and puts the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to meet it." Fascism carries this antipacifist spirit over even into the lives of individuals. It is education for combat.
These words by Mussolini are amplified by his famous statement that "War is to the man what maternity is to the woman. I do not believe in perpetual peace; not only do I not believe in it, but I find it depressing and a negation of all the fundamental virtues of man." Therefore, to continue in Mussolini's words, "The whole nation must be militarized . . . I consider the Italian nation to be in a perpetual state of war."
The creed of fascism is heroism, the praise of audacity and danger, devotion and sacrifice for the nation and its necessary wars.
"Fascism",
Encyclopaedia Britannica
(1966)