Tuesday, June 13
Stop the Killing
Stop the Killing!
It is said that good governance is God’s work. Peace is defined as harmonious relations free from disputes. If this is so, why are millions of Muslims being killed and injured across the world? The perpetrator of this terrorist related activity is Strauss philosophy followed by the neocons of the Bush Administration. The cold war is over, and the next victims chosen by the Straussians were the Muslims. What you have to understand is that Straussians are far more subversive than any KGB. Leo Strauss stated, “no bloody or unbloody change of society can eradicate the evil in man, as long as there will be men, there will be malice, envy, and hatred, and so society must employ coercive restraint.” The hope for permanent progress in human affairs believed by Woodrow Wilson is a delusion, Strauss wrote, “the idea of a universal state is a delusion. Each nation should conduct its own foreign policy and should not turn its foreign policy over to international organizations.” Strauss is a unilateralist, not a multilateralist. According to Strauss, the purpose of foreign policy is survival and independence or self-preservation. Nothing else. Strauss states that according to Socrates, foreign policy of a nation is never devoted to the good of other nations except in the case of self-interest. Socrates endorses imperialism, seizure of property and killing all men who oppose this expansion. He advocates lying to the citizens telling them a noble lie, such as telling Iraqis that destroying their homeland, killing citizens by the thousands and raping their resources is the way of winning hearts and minds. Hiding Iraqi government behind concrete walls is also rumored to be “democracy”.
Aristotle says that it is not lawful for one city to rule and exercise mastery over other cities. His belief is that “common sense” like there is justice or injustice among nations. Leo Strauss takes Plato’s point of view.
Thucydides argued that the question of survival, conquest and war overwhelm the concerns of domestic politics. As for "the good order within the city," Thucydides states “leave it to the moderate citizens."
In 2006, the Strauss model portrays ruthless subordination, of the good of other nations to one's own good. Take for example Israel over the Palestinian people. Hamas, Palestine’s democratically elected government is thwarted in its attempt to govern because it will not buckle under to Israel and the USA. In retaliation, Israel sent 6000 shells in the last two months into the Gaza strip and in the latest incident killing seven people including three children. What do you say to the child who is swimming and is the lone survivor? What price do you put on lost innocence? What do you say to an Algerian citizen who has flashbacks of French bombs falling in Algeria, brought on by witnessing this incident on television? What do you say to him when he says…”how can one dream when one can not sleep?” Since 1954 over one and a half million Algerian Muslims have lost their lives due to French colonialism.
What do you say to Iraqis, who are victims of an illegal war and have lost family, jobs, homes, their way of life and their country? Their country is polluted, filled with depleted uranium shells and ordinance.
If victory in Iraq is defined as democracy in Iraq, American forces will have to remain there for a long time. During their prime, Rome and Britain were pretty good at governing other nations. With few exceptions, Americans have never had the heart for it.
According to America's Declaration of Independence, every nation is entitled to a "separate and equal station" among "the powers of the earth." That is because of "the laws of nature and of nature's God," which tell us that "all men are created equal" and that we are obliged to respect men's equal rights to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." One way that the right to liberty is exercised is through each nation's collective right to consent to its own government, in a "separate and equal station" independent of the government of other nations. There is therefore no right of one nation to conquer or interfere in the affairs of any other nation, except to the extent required for self-preservation. Locke's strictures against conquest in the Second Treatise are based on exactly this understanding of the law of nature.
I dream of a day when Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Kristol, Perle, Wolfowitz, Feith, Libby, et al, are paraded before TV cameras in orange jumpsuits, shackled and humiliated, and soon to suffer the fate Hermann Goering, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and Rudolf Hess at the Nuremberg Trials. ¶ 6/13/2006 12:11:00 a.m.
It is said that good governance is God’s work. Peace is defined as harmonious relations free from disputes. If this is so, why are millions of Muslims being killed and injured across the world? The perpetrator of this terrorist related activity is Strauss philosophy followed by the neocons of the Bush Administration. The cold war is over, and the next victims chosen by the Straussians were the Muslims. What you have to understand is that Straussians are far more subversive than any KGB. Leo Strauss stated, “no bloody or unbloody change of society can eradicate the evil in man, as long as there will be men, there will be malice, envy, and hatred, and so society must employ coercive restraint.” The hope for permanent progress in human affairs believed by Woodrow Wilson is a delusion, Strauss wrote, “the idea of a universal state is a delusion. Each nation should conduct its own foreign policy and should not turn its foreign policy over to international organizations.” Strauss is a unilateralist, not a multilateralist. According to Strauss, the purpose of foreign policy is survival and independence or self-preservation. Nothing else. Strauss states that according to Socrates, foreign policy of a nation is never devoted to the good of other nations except in the case of self-interest. Socrates endorses imperialism, seizure of property and killing all men who oppose this expansion. He advocates lying to the citizens telling them a noble lie, such as telling Iraqis that destroying their homeland, killing citizens by the thousands and raping their resources is the way of winning hearts and minds. Hiding Iraqi government behind concrete walls is also rumored to be “democracy”.
Aristotle says that it is not lawful for one city to rule and exercise mastery over other cities. His belief is that “common sense” like there is justice or injustice among nations. Leo Strauss takes Plato’s point of view.
Thucydides argued that the question of survival, conquest and war overwhelm the concerns of domestic politics. As for "the good order within the city," Thucydides states “leave it to the moderate citizens."
In 2006, the Strauss model portrays ruthless subordination, of the good of other nations to one's own good. Take for example Israel over the Palestinian people. Hamas, Palestine’s democratically elected government is thwarted in its attempt to govern because it will not buckle under to Israel and the USA. In retaliation, Israel sent 6000 shells in the last two months into the Gaza strip and in the latest incident killing seven people including three children. What do you say to the child who is swimming and is the lone survivor? What price do you put on lost innocence? What do you say to an Algerian citizen who has flashbacks of French bombs falling in Algeria, brought on by witnessing this incident on television? What do you say to him when he says…”how can one dream when one can not sleep?” Since 1954 over one and a half million Algerian Muslims have lost their lives due to French colonialism.
What do you say to Iraqis, who are victims of an illegal war and have lost family, jobs, homes, their way of life and their country? Their country is polluted, filled with depleted uranium shells and ordinance.
If victory in Iraq is defined as democracy in Iraq, American forces will have to remain there for a long time. During their prime, Rome and Britain were pretty good at governing other nations. With few exceptions, Americans have never had the heart for it.
According to America's Declaration of Independence, every nation is entitled to a "separate and equal station" among "the powers of the earth." That is because of "the laws of nature and of nature's God," which tell us that "all men are created equal" and that we are obliged to respect men's equal rights to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." One way that the right to liberty is exercised is through each nation's collective right to consent to its own government, in a "separate and equal station" independent of the government of other nations. There is therefore no right of one nation to conquer or interfere in the affairs of any other nation, except to the extent required for self-preservation. Locke's strictures against conquest in the Second Treatise are based on exactly this understanding of the law of nature.
I dream of a day when Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Kristol, Perle, Wolfowitz, Feith, Libby, et al, are paraded before TV cameras in orange jumpsuits, shackled and humiliated, and soon to suffer the fate Hermann Goering, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and Rudolf Hess at the Nuremberg Trials. ¶ 6/13/2006 12:11:00 a.m.
