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Behind the Crack-up of the Right

erniel58 Wrote: Jun 22, 2012 4:43 PM

Yes and nearly all active Al Qaida are of the Wahhabi sect but we have created a permanent state of "war" against all Muslims to serve the financial interests who benefit. When the military industrial complex no longer had the boogeyman of communism to spur us into serving these masters, they invented new villains: Saddam, then Bin Laden, now their successors. If the "war" never ends then neither does the cashflow and our mandate to keep stripping personal liberties. When will we get wise to this "racket"?

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Behind the Crack-up of the Right

In introducing his new book, "Leo Strauss and the Conservative Movement in America," Paul Gottfried identifies a fundamental divide between neoconservatives and the traditional right. The divide is over the question: What is this nation, America?

Straussians, writes Gottfried, "wish to present the construction of government as an open-ended rationalist process. All children of the Enlightenment, once properly instructed, should be able to carry out this ... task."

For traditional conservatives, before the nation is born, "ethnic and cultural preconditions" must exist. All "successful constitutional orders," he writes, "are the expressions of already formed nations and cultures."

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