Leo Strauss and His Adherents in the Bush Administration [View All]

[The Whiskey Priest]

Strauss was a faculty member of the University of Chicago. Part the philosophy he developed was based on the “philosopher king,” the concept that is there are elites that have a right and duty to lead a nation. Among the things that Strauss advised the philosopher kings to do was to lie, because the people could not handle the truth.

That has bothered me since the start of the build up to the Iraq war, because many of the players in that build were adherents and students of students of Strauss. William Kristol, the father of the neo-conservative movement is an avoid Straussian, so is Paul Wolfowitz. If you recall it was Wolfowitz who said of one of the reasons to go to war, “WMD just a convenient excuse for war.”

How can we trust a government where the members of the government believe it is their duty and right to lie to us, because we cannot handle their truth.