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Rafan · 29 mei 2003, 21:12

Hallo Vlaamse Leeuw en Marginaal,
Speciaal voor jullie dit critisch artikel uit een amerikaans neo-conservatief
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Groeten
Rafan

World Domination through 'Premptive War', May 2, 2003
Reviewer: Professor Joseph L. McCauley (see more about me) from Texas+Austria
This book preaches that 'American' ideas are good for the entire world and should be imposed by military force. Read this book and others by the neo-conservatives ('The Threatening Storm', 'Of Paradise and Power') in order to understand what the men who run The War Machine (Rumsfeld, Cheney, Perle, Wolfowitz) believe and act on. This book advocates the neo-conservative policy of 'preemptive war' for Iraq and other 'potential threats' to the US. As foreign policy, one can compare this advocacy of preemptive war with von Neumann's early fifties advice to bomb the USSR immediately. von Neumann was one of the greatest mathematicians of all times. He contributed mightily to computer theory and design, and also contributed significantly to quantum physics. It was necessary to consider his advice, and then judge it wrong. Since the implosion of the USSR we know that Bohr and Einstein were right, that preemptive war is not the answer to national security.

Kristol and Kagan, unlike von Neumann, are not scientists. They are philosopher-policitians following a line though Allan Bloom that goes back through the rabid Nazi Heidegger to Nietzsche, the author of 'God is Dead'. The origin of their philosophy is Nietzsche's idea of 'the superman' and consequently imperialist, warring strength as 'virtue'. That is, in effect, the message of this awful book. Ths reader can judge for herself if she believes it to be 'American' or foreign.

The origin of the philosophy espoused in this book lies partly in confusion over standard economic theory with economic reality. I offer the following definitions for the readers' consideration. A neo-classical economist believes, on no empirical basis whatsoever, that unregulated markets are stable and can approach equilibrium (this is the idea of Adam Smith's Invisible Hand). A neo-liberal believes in globalization via deregulation on the basis of neo-classical economics. A neo-conservative is a neo-liberal with a modern techo-army and the will and desire to use it to enforce on the globe his illusion/fantasy of the best of all possible economic worlds. The latter is basically the message of this book. Without the terrorism of 9/11 the neo-cons could not have had an adequate excuse for putting their blood-drenched program into effect, thus making the desire of this book come true. Hitler had to burn the Reichstag in order to create enough fear and anger in Germany to destroy civil liberties there and go to war, but 9/11 fell like mana from heaven into the laps of the neo-cons, who have started a preemptive war following exactly the advice of this book, and have additionally given us the Orwellian ‚Patriot Act', a virtuous Nietzschean destruction of our civil liberties.

The reader should also consult my much earlier review of Allan Bloom's 'The closing of the American Mind'. As I pointed out in that review, I read the book and reread it many times, found it fascinating, but never could figure out what Bloom really wanted to say. Through his student Wolflowitz, we now understand much better what Allan Bloom wanted us to believe. By not making his program explicit, by keeping his scary program for America hidden, he helped the neo-cons to launch that program without the American people knowing what would follow.

29 mei 2003, 21:12	#1
Rafan Vreemdeling Geregistreerd: 4 juli 2002 Berichten: 45	Hallo Vlaamse Leeuw en Marginaal, Speciaal voor jullie dit critisch artikel uit een amerikaans neo-conservatief magazine... Groeten Rafan World Domination through 'Premptive War', May 2, 2003 Reviewer: Professor Joseph L. McCauley (see more about me) from Texas+Austria This book preaches that 'American' ideas are good for the entire world and should be imposed by military force. Read this book and others by the neo-conservatives ('The Threatening Storm', 'Of Paradise and Power') in order to understand what the men who run The War Machine (Rumsfeld, Cheney, Perle, Wolfowitz) believe and act on. This book advocates the neo-conservative policy of 'preemptive war' for Iraq and other 'potential threats' to the US. As foreign policy, one can compare this advocacy of preemptive war with von Neumann's early fifties advice to bomb the USSR immediately. von Neumann was one of the greatest mathematicians of all times. He contributed mightily to computer theory and design, and also contributed significantly to quantum physics. It was necessary to consider his advice, and then judge it wrong. Since the implosion of the USSR we know that Bohr and Einstein were right, that preemptive war is not the answer to national security. Kristol and Kagan, unlike von Neumann, are not scientists. They are philosopher-policitians following a line though Allan Bloom that goes back through the rabid Nazi Heidegger to Nietzsche, the author of 'God is Dead'. The origin of their philosophy is Nietzsche's idea of 'the superman' and consequently imperialist, warring strength as 'virtue'. That is, in effect, the message of this awful book. Ths reader can judge for herself if she believes it to be 'American' or foreign. The origin of the philosophy espoused in this book lies partly in confusion over standard economic theory with economic reality. I offer the following definitions for the readers' consideration. A neo-classical economist believes, on no empirical basis whatsoever, that unregulated markets are stable and can approach equilibrium (this is the idea of Adam Smith's Invisible Hand). A neo-liberal believes in globalization via deregulation on the basis of neo-classical economics. A neo-conservative is a neo-liberal with a modern techo-army and the will and desire to use it to enforce on the globe his illusion/fantasy of the best of all possible economic worlds. The latter is basically the message of this book. Without the terrorism of 9/11 the neo-cons could not have had an adequate excuse for putting their blood-drenched program into effect, thus making the desire of this book come true. Hitler had to burn the Reichstag in order to create enough fear and anger in Germany to destroy civil liberties there and go to war, but 9/11 fell like mana from heaven into the laps of the neo-cons, who have started a preemptive war following exactly the advice of this book, and have additionally given us the Orwellian ‚Patriot Act', a virtuous Nietzschean destruction of our civil liberties. The reader should also consult my much earlier review of Allan Bloom's 'The closing of the American Mind'. As I pointed out in that review, I read the book and reread it many times, found it fascinating, but never could figure out what Bloom really wanted to say. Through his student Wolflowitz, we now understand much better what Allan Bloom wanted us to believe. By not making his program explicit, by keeping his scary program for America hidden, he helped the neo-cons to launch that program without the American people knowing what would follow.