[quote=KSMountain]]
This is a little conspiratorial for my blood.[/quote]
I don’t know what to say. It’s not really a matter of speculation. They wrote “rebuilding america’s defenses” and wrote a letter to clinton about invading Iraq in 98 or 97. “They” as in the vast majority of the Bush administration. Ironically, Bush was not a signatory. A few other high profile DC think tanks had similar plans. The PNAC crew seemed to be a culmination of a few think tanks.
[quote=KSMountain]]
Arraya are you saying Hillary and Biden were in on the conspiracy? Or were they like naive little rabbits that were duped by the Darth-vader like machinations of Cheney? I don’t believe that for a minute. I believe both of those two are able to think independently. [/quote]
They are insiders, but did not sign the letter to clinton nor the PNAC document which was a think tank of the neoconservative flavor(which has it’s roots with political philosopher Leo Strauss).
Strauss taught that liberalism in its modern form contained within it an intrinsic tendency towards extreme relativism, which in turn led to two types of nihilism[12] The first was a “brutal” nihilism, expressed in Nazi and Marxist regimes. In On Tyranny, he wrote that these ideologies, both descendants of Enlightenment thought, tried to destroy all traditions, history, ethics, and moral standards and replace them by force under which nature and mankind are subjugated and conquered.[13] The second type – the “gentle” nihilism expressed in Western liberal democracies – was a kind of value-free aimlessness and a hedonistic “permissive egalitarianism”, which he saw as permeating the fabric of contemporary American society.[14][15] In the belief that 20th century relativism, scientism, historicism, and nihilism were all implicated in the deterioration of modern society and philosophy, Strauss sought to uncover the philosophical pathways that had led to this situation. The resultant study led him to advocate a tentative return to classical political philosophy as a starting point for judging political action.[1
When he speaks of liberalism, he is talking about capitalism. Which, I tend to agree with, to an extent.
