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Neo-Conservatives Are Anti-American

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Fernando Wood [OP]

2004-05-05 03:30 | User Profile

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Neoconservatives Are Anti-American By Paul Craig Roberts [B]Is Bush correct when he reassures his war fans that torture is not indicative of American values? http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/04/30/iraq.photos/ Or is the US government merely treating Iraqis the same way it treated Randy Weaver’s family at Ruby Ridge, http://reason.com/9310/fe.bock.shtml the Branch Davidians at Waco http://www.davekopel.org/Waco/Arts/wanatrev.htm, Texas, and Gordon Kahl’s family http://www.bismarcktribune.com/series/kahl/ at Medina, ND?[/B] Why expect the US government to show more restraint to Iraqis than it shows its own citizens? http://www.vdare.com/francis/police_state.htm In view of the atrocities the federal government has committed against its own citizens, what is unusual in the US Army report that details “egregious acts” http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/05/04/iraq.abuse/ of cruelty and barbarism committed against Iraqi prisoners by US forces? Why are we surprised that the CIA has launched an investigation of murder of Iraqi prisoners by US guards in Abu Ghraib prison, or that a French TV station has a video of a US helicopter gunship mowing down unarmed Iraqi civilians, or that evidence http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=8&id=297375 has come to light that the US is torturing prisoners in Afghanistan as well? [B]When Bush says that torture is not indicative of American values, he is speaking of the old America, the America of restraint, the America that did not believe that the ends justify the means, a classically educated America that understood that hubris brings nemesis. The new emerging America is Jacobin http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=site:vdare.com+%20Jacobin. Its will to power has cast off restraint. Its inherent and unique virtue gives it the right-Bush says the duty-to exercise unlimited power in the name of enforcing American values elsewhere in the world. The new aggressive spirit of America is embodied in the neoconservative http://www.vdare.com/misc/macdonald_neoconservatism.htm ideology that drives the Bush administration.[/B] Professor Claes Ryn http://www.vdare.com/roberts/wisdom_folly.htm describes this new spirit in his recent book, America the Virtuous. http://www.vdare.com/roberts/ryn.htm It is an imperialistic spirit whose arrogant moral purpose justifies mowing down whatever is seen to stand it its way. Those most imbued with this spirit are trapped firmly within it. If Iraqis resist military imposition of US values, then they must be “thugs and outlaws” deserving to be exterminated for standing in the way of America’s virtue and superior morality. Only evil people would resist the good we are imposing on them. Thus has Bush cast the conflict as one of good vs. evil. Some US soldiers have caught the spirit that Bush has infused into the conflict. If you pay attention to Bush’s speeches, you will see that he is trying to infuse this spirit into the American people. Beware. It is an evil spirit. Because it brooks no objection, it will bring a police state at home and death and destruction abroad, just as the Jacobins brought to 18th century France and Europe. Americans must understand that the neo-Jacobin spirit that guides the Bush administration is anti-American. It is not unpatriotic to resist this spirit. It is the same evil spirit that motivated Deutschland uber alles (Germany over all). Just as the Nazi claim to be the master race trumped all traditional moral standards, the neoconservatives claim that America is uniquely virtuous justifies America’s domination over the rest of the world. Unless Americans stand firm against this spirit, Americans will endure endless wars and great disasters. COPYRIGHT CREATORS SYNDICATE, INC. http://www.creators.com/

All Old Right

2004-05-05 13:29 | User Profile

Good one. I was going to post this, if it wasn't already. Big surprise? All of this airport "security" which is nothing but similar abuse by pitiful .gov thugs with low self-esteem. Sheesh, it's not like we didn't see this one coming.

Not to mention world history. The whole purpose of separation of powers is that men are corrupt and need checks and balances. Bush isn't the first tyrant wannabe to say he represents all that is good and pure...while reigning over sickness and depravity.

It doesn't begin and end in Iraq either. Even a "routine" traffic stop or border crossing (for law-abiding whites) these days is an excercise in intimidation and degradation. Some of the older cops still work the old fashioned, courteous way, but they are on the way out. The neocon era is coming to fruition, and thuggery and wickedness goes along with it. Roberts did very well with this piece. And, we were supposed to believe all of the "neato" new powers enacted after 911 wouldn't be turned into tyranny? I guess all of those idiots I meet in WalMart are the new America after all. No offense to the non-idiots at WalMart.

Commander8

2004-05-12 02:41 | User Profile

"When Bush says that torture is not indicative of American values, he is speaking of the old America, the America of restraint, the America that did not believe that the ends justify the means, a classically educated America that understood that hubris brings nemesis. The new emerging America is Jacobin . Its will to power has cast off restraint. Its inherent and unique virtue gives it the right-Bush says the duty-to exercise unlimited power in the name of enforcing American values elsewhere in the world. The new aggressive spirit of America is embodied in the neoconservative ideology that drives the Bush administration."

Hear, Hear!