From: "Anthony Crifasi" <crifasi-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: journalized leo strauss
Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 23:38:11 +0000


James Miguez wrote:

>In his article, Hersh wrote that Strauss believed the world to be a
>place where "isolated liberal democracies live in constant danger from
>hostile elements abroad", and where policy advisers may have to deceive
>their own publics and even their rulers in order to protect their
>countries.

Is Tony Blair supposed to be a Straussian too? And the Australians? And the 
Japanese? And Denmark? And Bill Clinton too when he cited the exact same 
national security reasons as Bush when he bombed Baghdad in 1998? And you 
can hardly label Clinton a neo-conservative. Were the BBC and the Telegraph 
deceived about the documents found in Bhagdad last week directly linking 
Hussein with al Quaeda and Bin Laden himself:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2979405.stm

and

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/04/27/walq27.xml

and excerpts from the actual documents themselves:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/04/27/walq127.xml

>Like Plato, Strauss taught that within societies, "some are fit to lead,
>and others to be led", according to Drury. But, unlike Plato, who
>believed that leaders had to be people with such high moral standards
>that they could resist the temptations of power, Strauss thought that
>"those who are fit to rule are those who realize there is no morality
>and that there is only one natural right, the right of the superior to
>rule over the inferior".

So Bush is supposed to believe both in the dark age Christian morality of 
good and bad, and also the supposedly Straussian premise that "there is no 
morality" except "the right of the superior to rule over the inferior"? 
Contradictions left and right. But hey, according to some here, that just 
means you're full of multitudes.

>"Strauss thinks that a political order can be stable only if it is
>united by an external threat," Drury wrote in her book. "Following
>Machiavelli, he maintains that if no external threat exists, then one
>has to be manufactured.

I guess the Sept. 11 events were manufactured, along with the documents 
linking Hussein with Bin Laden found by the Telegraph last week? I guess 
those Straussian Japanese and Australians, not to mention Denmark and the 
eastern European countries, are all in on it too. I guess the audio tapes 
played by Powell before the UN of a conversation between Iraqi officials 
concerning the deception of UN inspectors was just manufactured.

Yes, one can be full of multitudes.

Anthony Crifasi

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