Infowars.com
January 15, 2014
Neocon big leaguer, William Kristol,
has come out with another doozy of an op-ed for the Weekly Standard,
the neocon redoubt Kristol edits that has consistently lost around a
million dollars a year since its inception in 1995.
This time around, Bill glamorizes the War
to End All Wars, the First World War. He laments the “gravitational
pull toward a posture of ironic passivity or fatalistic regret in the
face of civilizational decline,” in other words the natural attitude of
normal people to avoid war, largely because they inevitably pay the
heavy price while a pampered intelligentsia hide out in their ivory
towers.
Bill says the First World War engendered a
“continuing deep if often indirect contribution to today’s
demoralization of the West” because, as his buddy, the Canadian David
Frum (inventor of the “axis of evil”) notes, it brought about a
rejection of war despite the best efforts of the state to glorify and
glamorize it.
As a student of the guru of neoconism,
Leo Strauss, Bill Kristol knows what he’s doing, never mind the
hackneyed prose or his disingenuous reliance on Francis Scott Key’s “The
Star-Spangled Banner.”
Shadia Drury, a scholar and critic of Leo
Strauss and his progeny, put the neocon deception into context during
the Bush years and the heyday of neocon total war and mass destruction.
“Leo Strauss was a great believer in the efficacy and usefulness of lies in politics,” Drury told Danny Postel
in 2003, soon after the neocon invasion of Iraq and its ultimate price
of more than a million dead. “The idea that Strauss was a great defender
of liberal democracy is laughable. I suppose that Strauss’s disciples
consider it a noble lie. Yet many in the media have been gullible enough
to believe it,” and continue to do so as the invasions of Libya (more
than 30,000 slaughtered) and the ongoing mercenary war in Syria reveal.
