[Peace-discuss] Major truth, completed

[n.dahlheim at mchsi.com]

Carl,
    That is a fantastic point about paleo-conservatism.  Much of the foreign interventionist mindset has 
flowered within ostensibly progressive discourse.  Look at Teddy Roosevelt as a major historical example-
--the initiator of the Progressive Era oversaw (what was at the time) the largest acceleration of American 
imperialism in history.  
      Nick


----------------------  Original Message:  ---------------------
From:    "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at uiuc.edu>
To:      Peace Discuss <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>
Subject: [Peace-discuss] Major truth, completed 
Date:    Sun, 4 May 2008 05:22:06 +0000

> "The new expanded secret war required a special appropriation which leading 
> Democrats secretly approved, after listening to the request in secret session. 
> They voted $300 million for the covert operations, which are a major escalation 
> towards open war on Iran..."
> 
> This news story illustrates the major truth mentioned in passing in Slavoj 
> Zizek's new book, In Defense of Lost Causes: he writes of the need 
> 
> "to break the vicious cycle of left-liberal blackmail ('if you do not vote for 
> us, 
> the Right will limit abortion, implement racist legislation...'), and to profit 
> from 
> old Marx's insight into how intelligent conservatives often see more (and are 
> more aware of the antagonisms of the existing order) than liberal progressives." 
> 
> That's why, with few exceptions, we get principled opposition to war in Iran 
> (and Iraq and Afpak and Palestine) not from Democrats but from paleo-
> conservatives such as those around the journal American Conservative (and Ron 
> Paul). A notable recent example is Bill Kauffman's new book, "Ain't My America: 
> The Long, Noble History of Antiwar Conservatism and Middle-American Anti-
> Imperialism."  --CGE   
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