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The Whiskey Priest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-02-05 04:39 PM Original message |
Leo Strauss and His Adherents in the Bush Administration |
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marbuc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-02-05 04:44 PM Response to Original message |
1. The Straussian web reaches even further than you might think |
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Stephanie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-02-05 04:47 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. yes it's very conveeenient to have a philosophy that tells you to lie |
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marbuc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-02-05 04:53 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. Strauss's philosophies were/are extremely Machiavellian |
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bluedawg12 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-02-05 05:28 PM Response to Reply #7 |
19. And Manachean, good v evil. things are in black or white. |
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Karenina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-02-05 05:22 PM Response to Reply #1 |
17. Chalabi too. |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-02-05 04:45 PM Response to Original message |
2. Politicians lie?!!?? I am deeply shocked. |
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Mr_Spock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-02-05 04:48 PM Response to Original message |
4. Strauss - king of the neoCON movement. |
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BrotherBuzz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-02-05 05:46 PM Response to Reply #4 |
21. The Strauss 'cookbook' was lifted from the Nazi 'blueprint' |
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bluedawg12 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-02-05 04:52 PM Response to Original message |
5. This is the real elitism |
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Stephanie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-02-05 04:54 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. also that these elites are self-selected |
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bluedawg12 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-02-05 05:00 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. Stephanie- not kidding! LMAO. They are so smart that |
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The Whiskey Priest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-02-05 05:02 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. LOL Your cat was smarter than the source of most of the Intel |
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happydreams (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-02-05 05:53 PM Response to Reply #8 |
22. Predators don't make good protectors, adminstrators. |
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bluedawg12 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-02-05 10:53 PM Response to Reply #22 |
26. happydreams- you just described dictators. |
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The Whiskey Priest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-02-05 05:05 PM Response to Reply #5 |
15. Have read her book |
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Opusnone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-02-05 04:52 PM Response to Original message |
6. Now we know the problem, what is the solution? |
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bluedawg12 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-02-05 05:23 PM Response to Reply #6 |
18. I am not sure we really even know the problem, yet. |
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The Whiskey Priest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-02-05 05:28 PM Response to Reply #18 |
20. A couple thoughts on this question |
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bluedawg12 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-02-05 10:43 PM Response to Reply #20 |
25. The Whiskey Priest- you said it, what's next for these idiots? |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-02-05 04:54 PM Response to Original message |
9. Call the old bastard what he was: NEOFEUDALIST |
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Flubadubya (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-02-05 05:02 PM Response to Reply #9 |
14. "while we can...." |
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Stephanie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-02-05 04:55 PM Response to Original message |
10. more info here > |
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hatrack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-02-05 05:02 PM Response to Original message |
12. And then they wonder why they are not believed - brilliant. |
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bluedawg12 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-02-05 05:20 PM Response to Original message |
16. Here's another elitist relic from the 20th century |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-02-05 05:54 PM Response to Original message |
23. So a Dim-witted Calvinst has surrounded himself with a bunch |
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no_hypocrisy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-02-05 07:30 PM Response to Original message |
24. Does this mean this stuff will blow over in a generation when the "alum" |
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marbuc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-03-05 05:30 PM Response to Reply #24 |
27. One would hope |
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